 Nyorai kuenderera kweiyi ndima - Kutevera kutanga kwehondo yakaunganidzwa mukutanga kwaAugust ndokuiswa pasi pehutungamiriri hwaGeneral Alexander Samsonov. Pasi pekumanikidzwa kubva kumubatanidzwa wavo France, uyo akatarisana nesimba rakasimba rekupinda kweGerman kumadokero, zvakasarudzwa kuti 2nd Mauto aizobatana ne1st Mauto sechikamu cheGeneral Yakov Zhilinskiys Northwestern Front uko kwaizotora chikamu mukupinda kweEast Prussia. Kubatanidzwa kwe1st ne2nd Mauto kwaive nechikanganiso chakakomba; Samsonov nemutungamiriri we1st Army, Paul von Rennenkampf, vaive nehukama hwekupokana uye husina kunaka kubvira 1905. 