Page "Battle of Orsha" Paragraph 14

Sigismund von Herberstein reported that 40, 000 Russians were killed.

According to accounts in Polish chronicles, at the Battle of Orsha 30, 000 Russians were killed and an additional 3, 000 were taken captive, including Ivan Chelyadnin and eight other commanders.

The forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland seized the Russian camp and all 300 cannons.

Upset at word of the massive defeat, Grand Prince Vasili III allegedly remarked that " the prisoners as useful as the dead ".