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During the summer offensive, the troops of the Central Powers inflicted very heavy casualties on the Imperial Russian Army – in 45 days – up to 1,006,000 men. Of course, this was somewhat less than the Russian casualties in the previous Gorlice campaign (1,243,400 men in 75 days), [ 10 ] but on average, the casualties per day were higher ...
The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the Central Powers' chief offensive effort of 1915, causing the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia ...
A little further from the entrance, marked by the St. George's Cross, there is a zone of memory and sorrow - a bronze map of the military events of 1915–1917, two memorial urns with soil from the burial sites of soldiers of the Russian and German armies, a chapel with a bell. [8]
Yuri Nikiforovich Danilov Russian: Ю́рий Ники́форович Дани́лов; 13 August [O.S. 1 August] 1866 – 3 February 1937) was a Russian military officer. In the years leading up to World War I , he served as the Quartermaster-General on the Russian General Staff and had a major role in developing Russia's war plan that was ...
The Pulawy Legion, formed in January 1915, had by March 1915 some 1,000 soldiers and officers, and was attached to the Moscow Grenadiers. In early May of that year, the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive of the Central Powers began, and on May 18, the Legion was sent to Krzyzanowice, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Ilza , near Russian-German frontline.
Defence of Przasnysz by the Imperial Russian Army on the Eastern Front, 1915 At the outbreak of the war, Emperor Nicholas II appointed his cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas as Commander-in-Chief. On mobilization, the Russian Army totalled 115 infantry and 38 cavalry divisions with nearly 7,900 guns (7,100 field guns, 540 field howitzers and 257 heavy ...
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bezobrazov (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Безобра́зов; 1857 - 1932) was a Russian military leader from the Bezobrazov family, general from the cavalry, adjutant general. From 1915-1916 he was commander of the Guard.
In March 1915 Alekseyev became the overall commander of the Russian Northwestern Front. On 5 September 1915, when Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich of Russia stepped down as Russian supreme Commander-in-chief in August 1915 to be replaced by Tsar Nicholas II, Alekseyev was appointed as Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters ( Stavka ) and ...