The article examines some aspects of sexual life of Russian soldiers and officers in occupied Galicia during WWI. There is no special research devoted to this issue. The research is based on wide circle of memoirs, diaries and correspondence of both military men and Galician witnesses of the occupation. It is shown that, in contrast with many memoirists and historians’ statements, sexual contacts between local women and military men, in many cases, were voluntary. Prostitution and, therefore, venereal diseases had spread in cities far from the front line. The most significant scale of the last ones was observed in Lviv as the biggest city of Galicia. The specific feature of Lviv, in comparison with cities in Russian rear, was that many prostitutes imitated respectable women, misleading Russian military men by this way.
Parfirev Dmitrii (Wed,) studied this question.