Russian soldiers holding their hands up in capitulation.

Russian prisoners deported outside the administrative borders of the Town of Iława.

15,000 Russian soldiers waiting for the distribution of their portion of bread.

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^{Photo from the collection of Krzysztof Grynder.}

Russian prisoners taken captive after the Battle of Tannenberg. The mounted riders escorting their column are the young "Husars of Death" from a unit in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz.

^{Photo from the collection of Krzysztof Grynder.}

A column of Russian prisoners in Wrzeszcz, coming from the direction of Gdansk towards Oliwa. The street crossing is the one on today's Grunwaldzka and Jaskowa Dolina streets. The buildings in the photograph no longer exist.

Russian prisoners after the Battle of Tannenberg. More than 90 thousand people were taken prisoner in East Prussia. Sixty trains were used for their transport. What awaited these Russians were long years of isolation from their families and the awareness of defeat caused by the indolence of their commanders.