Aftermath
At this point, the German advance was finally halted. The frontline was going from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border by the Riga-Jakobstadt-Dünaburg-Baranovichi-Pinsk-Dubno-Ternopil line.
On 21 August 1915, Tsar Nicholas II dismissed Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich and took direct control of the army.
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