Masurian

Mr. Egremont grants us glimpses of an austerely gorgeous idyll, of untamed forests and wide Masurian lakes, of a "softly lit horizon . . . and the pale-blue East Prussian sky," of ice-sailing regattas and sleigh rides, of marzipan at Christmas.

Eastern Reproaches Andrew Stuttaford 2011

Our bodies took an exploitive angle under the aristocratic slump in the wall, covered with the newly-unclassified pictorial potpourri depicting the State secret of my love's childhood, from the Masurian Lakes to the Pripet Marshes.

Soviet Adam Henry Carri 2010

Ludendorff and Hindenburg became a team; they successfully stopped the Russian advance at Tannenberg and destroyed two Russian armies in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1914.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Hindenburg and Ludendorff stopped the Russian advance at Tannenberg and expelled the Russians from East Prussia in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes in September 1914.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

He survived the Masurian disasters of August 1914, when the two Russian armies invading Prussia were destroyed by the German defenders in what was misleadingly named the Battle of Tannenberg.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

He survived the Masurian disasters of August 1914, when the two Russian armies invading Prussia were destroyed by the German defenders in what was misleadingly named the Battle of Tannenberg.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

"Signs will appear around the Masurian Lakes saying, for Germans only, and the country will lose its money and its media."

Backlash In The East 2007

After the great slaughter of the French at the outset of the war, and a mighty killing of Russians at the Battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

While the Austrian offensive was under way, General von Hindenburg unexpectedly launched a vigorous attack in East Prussia, which resulted in the destruction of the Russian East Prussian Army in the region of the Masurian Lakes.

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various

It is only when troops are surrounded or when a large hostile force is thrust in between units, as happened some months ago with the Tenth Russian Army in the Masurian

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various