(1) Stephen Graham, Russia and the World (1915)
So on August 30th he fled to a forest and there was where he had gave himself a fatal shot to the head because he had thought that it was his fault for the immense lose. Samsonov had escaped capture from the Germans and fled to a nearby forest. Though the two corps had not arrived in time to play a role in the Battle of Tannenberg-which would remain the greatest German triumph of the war against Russia on the Eastern Front- they would also be unable to aid their comrades at the Battle of the Marne in early September, when German forces advancing towards Paris were decisively defeated by British and French troops in a crucial victory for the Allies.ĭue to the loss at the Battle of Tannenberg General Samsonov was depressed and left. By the end of August, Russia’s ambitious advance in East Prussia in August 1914 had achieved at least one of its goals, albeit at a tremendous cost: two German corps had been removed from the Western to the Eastern Front in order to confront the Russian menace. In total, over 50,000 Russian soldiers were killed and some 92,000 taken as prisoners in the Battle of Tannenberg-named thus by the Germans in vengeful remembrance of the village, where in 1410 the Poles had defeated the Teutonic Knights.
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