I understand there is a restaurant in Saint Petersburgh called 1914. It is to remind everyone that Russia in 1914
was not a backward country-it had colleges of engineering,
a transcontinental railroad and so forth. It was about where the US was in 1870 or 1880 and Japan in about 1900.
One can only speculate where it would have been without the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and WWI.