On the night of February 8-9, 1904, without declaring war, the Japanese squadron attacked the Russian naval base Port Arthur. This was preceded by a meeting at sea of Russian and Japanese ships. Russian sailors, not having an order, did not open fire on the Japanese, but as a result of inept maneuvering, two Japanese destroyers collided with each other and were damaged.
After that, four Japanese ships approached Port Arthur undetected and launched a torpedo attack. It was impossible to call it successful. Of the 16 torpedoes fired, thirteen either missed their targets or failed to explode. However, three torpedoes damaged three of the strongest Russian ships based in Port Arthur - the battleships "Retvisan" and "Tsesarevich" and the cruiser "Pallada".
Fire at the Golden Mountain during the defense of Port Arthur, 1905
First fight Russo-Japanese War continued in the morning, when from a distance of eight kilometers the fleets began a skirmish. The total losses in this battle amounted to 150 people for the Russians and 90 people for the Japanese.
Only the next day, February 10, 1904, Japan officially declared war on Russia. Today we remember the exploits of the soldiers of the Russian army in this war.
The death of the destroyer "Guarding"
In St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side, there is a magnificent monument to all the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. It has two surviving sailors destroyer"Guarding" open kingstones to flood the ship and not give it to the enemy. The team of the "Guard" really accomplished a real feat, only there are no kingstones on ships of this class and the "Guard" sank itself from the holes received.
The first Russian submarine "Dolphin", which took part in the Russo-Japanese War
The destroyers "Guarding" and "Resolute" on February 10, the day of the official declaration of the Russo-Japanese war, were returning to Port Arthur when four Japanese destroyers "Akebono", "Sazanami", "Sinonome" and "Usugumo" blocked their way. Subsequently, they were joined by two cruisers "Tokiva" and "Chitose". The commanders of the Russian destroyers decided to avoid the battle, but only the "Resolute" managed to break through to Port Arthur. The "Guarding" boilers were damaged from a direct hit of the projectile, and he continued the battle, having practically lost his course. Despite the significant superiority of the enemy, "Guarding" fought for almost an hour.
Even at the beginning of the battle, the St. Andrew's flag was nailed to the mast so that it would not be accidentally torn off by an explosion. The commander of the ship, Lieutenant Sergeev, led the battle while lying on the deck with broken legs. When he died, Lieutenant N. Goloviznin took command, but he was soon struck down by shrapnel. At the end of the battle, when the ship could no longer shoot back, the heavily wounded mechanical engineer V. Anastasov commanded it. When the last gun fell silent, the dying signalman Kruzhkov, with the help of fireman Osinin, was able to throw the signal books overboard, tying a load to them.
All the officers and 45 out of 49 sailors died on the Guardian. The Japanese tried to tow the sinking destroyer, but failed - the ship sank, breaking the tow rope.
Operating room in a field hospital during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905
Wounded soldiers in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Our proud Varyag does not surrender to the enemy
The beginning of the war was met by the legendary cruiser Varyag in the neutral Korean port of Chemulpo. The captain of the ship, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, had an order from the tsar's governor, Admiral Alekseev, not to get involved in Japanese provocations, so the cruiser remained in the roadstead even when the Japanese fired on the gunboat "Koreets", which was sent to Port Arthur with a report about the Japanese landing in the port .
The cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreets" are returning after a hard battle to the Korean port of Chemulpo
On February 9, the captain of the Varyag, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, received an ultimatum from the Japanese: leave the port before 12 noon, otherwise Russian ships would be attacked in the roadstead. Rudnev decided to break through with a fight to Port Arthur, and in case of failure, blow up the ships. At noon, "Varyag" and "Korean" left Chemulpo. When leaving the port, Russian ships met the Japanese squadron, which occupied a position behind the island of Phamildo.
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The heroic battle of "Varyag" and "Korean" against fourteen Japanese warships lasted for an hour. "Varyag" and "Korean" destroyed a Japanese destroyer and a cruiser, damaged another cruiser. But the Varyag itself was so riddled with shells that Rudnev decided to return to the port of Chemulpo. There they opened the kingstones on the cruiser and sank the ship. The gunboat "Koreets" was blown up. In this unprecedented battle, 1 officer and 30 sailors from the Varyag were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously wounded.
He closed the hole with his body
Russia still remembers another hero of the Russo-Japanese War. This is the mechanical engineer of the Russian destroyer "Strong" Vasily Zverev. On March 27, 1904, at 2:15 a.m., the Japanese made an attempt to block the entrance to the inner roadstead of Port Arthur by sending 4 large commercial ships there, accompanied by 6 destroyers.
The enemy's attempt was thwarted by the patrol destroyer "Strong". The ship rushed to the attack, dealt with the ships and entered into battle with six Japanese destroyers. Having received a hole in the steam pipeline, "Strong" turned into a fixed target for enemy fire. Then Zverev closed the hole with his body and returned the course to the ship, sacrificing his life. The dead were solemnly buried in Port Arthur.
Emperor Nicholas II inspects the formation of regiments leaving for Manchuria
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich together with the officers of the 4th Siberian Cossack regiment
Before reading - eat
Grigory Khodosevich, commandant of the Port Arthur fortress, was on board the Russian destroyer Strashny when on March 30, 1904, the ship entered into an unequal battle with four Japanese warships. 49 sailors were killed in the battle, only five people survived, including Khodosevich.
He ended up in ice water with a severe back injury. He had secret documents hidden under his life jacket. Seeing a Japanese boat approaching him, Khodasevich, with fingers stiff from the cold, began to tear the bag and eat the paper along with the seaweed. When the Japanese approached and lifted him on board, there was practically nothing left of the package. The interrogation also yielded nothing - Grigory Khodosevich did not say a word about the content of the secret documents. The hero was sent to a prisoner of war camp and returned to his homeland only after the war.
Captured Japanese taken at the village of Yuhuangtun
Port Arthur - from here to eternity
One of the true heroes of the defense of Port Arthur, of course, is the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Roman Kondratenko. He personally led the defense in the most difficult and dangerous areas. Roman Kondratenko knew how to raise the morale of the soldiers in the most difficult moments of the siege of the city, which could several times reflect the assault of the Japanese. He died on December 15, 1904 from a direct hit in the casemate of the fort by a howitzer shell. 8 more officers died with him. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the body of the hero was solemnly reburied in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
This was preceded by a meeting at sea of Russian and Japanese ships. Russian sailors, not having an order, did not open fire on the Japanese, but as a result of inept maneuvering, two Japanese destroyers collided with each other and were damaged.
After that, four Japanese ships approached unnoticed Port Arthur and launched a torpedo attack. It was impossible to call it successful. Of the 16 torpedoes fired, thirteen either missed their targets or failed to explode. However, three torpedoes damaged three of the strongest Russian ships based in Port Arthur - the battleships "Retvisan" and "Tsesarevich" and the cruiser "Pallada".
The first battle of the Russo-Japanese War continued in the morning, when the fleets began a skirmish from a distance of eight kilometers. The total losses in this battle amounted to 150 people for the Russians and 90 people for the Japanese.
Only the next day, February 10, 1904, Japan officially declared war on Russia. Today we remember the exploits of the soldiers of the Russian army in this war.
The death of the destroyer "Guarding"
In St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side, there is a magnificent monument to all the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. On it, two surviving sailors of the destroyer "Guarding" open the kingstones in order to flood the ship and not give it to the enemy. The team of the "Guard" really accomplished a real feat, only there are no kingstones on ships of this class and the "Guard" sank itself from the holes received.
The destroyers "Guarding" and "Resolute" on February 10, the day of the official declaration of the Russo-Japanese war, were returning to Port Arthur when four Japanese destroyers "Akebono", "Sazanami", "Sinonome" and "Usugumo" blocked their way. Subsequently, they were joined by two cruisers "Tokiva" and "Chitose". The commanders of the Russian destroyers decided to avoid the battle, but only the "Resolute" managed to break through to Port Arthur. The "Guarding" boilers were damaged from a direct hit of the projectile, and he continued the battle, having practically lost his course. Despite the significant superiority of the enemy, "Guarding" fought for almost an hour.
Even at the beginning of the battle, the St. Andrew's flag was nailed to the mast so that it would not be accidentally torn off by an explosion. The commander of the ship, Lieutenant Sergeev, led the battle while lying on the deck with broken legs. When he died, Lieutenant N. Goloviznin took command, but he was soon struck down by shrapnel. At the end of the battle, when the ship could no longer shoot back, the heavily wounded mechanical engineer V. Anastasov commanded it. When the last gun fell silent, the dying signalman Kruzhkov, with the help of fireman Osinin, was able to throw the signal books overboard, tying a load to them.
All the officers and 45 out of 49 sailors died on the Guardian. The Japanese tried to tow the sinking destroyer, but failed - the ship sank, breaking the tow rope.
Our proud Varyag does not surrender to the enemy
The beginning of the war was met by the legendary cruiser Varyag in the neutral Korean port of Chemulpo. The captain of the ship, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, had an order from the tsar's governor, Admiral Alekseev, not to get involved in Japanese provocations, so the cruiser remained in the roadstead even when the Japanese fired on the gunboat "Koreets", which was sent to Port Arthur with a report about the Japanese landing in the port .
On February 9, the captain of the Varyag, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, received an ultimatum from the Japanese: leave the port before 12 noon, otherwise Russian ships would be attacked in the roadstead. Rudnev decided to break through with a fight to Port Arthur, and in case of failure, blow up the ships. At noon, "Varyag" and "Korean" left Chemulpo. When leaving the port, Russian ships met the Japanese squadron, which occupied a position behind the island of Phamildo.
The heroic battle of "Varyag" and "Korean" against fourteen Japanese warships lasted for an hour. "Varyag" and "Korean" destroyed a Japanese destroyer and a cruiser, damaged another cruiser. But the Varyag itself was so riddled with shells that Rudnev decided to return to the port of Chemulpo. There they opened the kingstones on the cruiser and sank the ship. The gunboat "Koreets" was blown up. In this unprecedented battle, 1 officer and 30 sailors from the Varyag were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously wounded.
He closed the hole with his body
Russia still remembers another hero of the Russo-Japanese War. This is the mechanical engineer of the Russian destroyer "Strong" Vasily Zverev. On March 27, 1904, at 2:15 a.m., the Japanese attempted to block the entrance to the inner roadstead of Port Arthur by sending 4 large commercial ships there, accompanied by 6 destroyers.
The enemy's attempt was thwarted by the patrol destroyer "Strong". The ship rushed to the attack, dealt with the ships and entered into battle with six Japanese destroyers. Having received a hole in the steam pipeline, "Strong" turned into a fixed target for enemy fire. Then Zverev closed the hole with his body and returned the course to the ship, sacrificing his life. The dead were solemnly buried in Port Arthur.
Before reading - eat
Grigory Khodosevich, commandant of the Port Arthur fortress, was on board the Russian destroyer Strashny when on March 30, 1904, the ship entered into an unequal battle with four Japanese warships. 49 sailors were killed in the battle, only five people survived, including Khodosevich.
He ended up in icy water with a severe back injury. He had secret documents hidden under his life jacket. Seeing a Japanese boat approaching him, Khodasevich, with fingers stiff from the cold, began to tear the bag and eat the paper along with the seaweed. When the Japanese approached and lifted him on board, there was practically nothing left of the package. The interrogation also yielded nothing - Grigory Khodosevich did not say a word about the content of the secret documents. The hero was sent to a prisoner of war camp and returned to his homeland only after the war.
Port Arthur - from here to eternity
One of the true heroes of the defense of Port Arthur, of course, is the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Roman Kondratenko. He personally led the defense in the most difficult and dangerous areas. Roman Kondratenko knew how to raise the morale of the soldiers in the most difficult moments of the siege of the city, which could several times reflect the assault of the Japanese. He died on December 15, 1904 from a direct hit in the casemate of the fort by a howitzer shell. 8 more died with him. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the body of the hero was solemnly reburied in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The feat of the border guard
One of the heroes of Prot-Arthur was the lieutenant colonel of the Russian border guards, head of the Kwantung department of the Special Trans-Amur border district Pyotr Butusov.
In July 1904, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov led the search, in which the enemy cannon was blown up by border guards, and the locks were removed from three. On August 6, Butusov's border guards, together with the arrows, drove the Japanese out of the Water Redoubt they captured. On October 15, for the courage shown in the battles to repel the second assault on Port Arthur, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree.
On November 21, 1904, during the fourth assault on Port Arthur, Butusov was appointed commandant of High Mountain, where he was mortally wounded. He died on November 22 and was buried in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.
Russian "Chinese" Vasily Ryabov
The scout of the Russian army, Private Vasily Ryabov, repeatedly went to the rear of the Japanese in the clothes and wig of a Chinese peasant. And one day Ryabov's group ran into a Japanese patrol. Vasily Ryabov was taken prisoner, but during interrogation he steadfastly kept a military secret and, being sentenced to death, behaved with dignity. Everything happened strictly according to the ritual. Shot from guns from fifteen paces. Vasily Ryabov accepted death with open eyes.
The Japanese were delighted with the courageous behavior of the Russian and considered it their duty to bring this to the attention of his superiors. The note of the Japanese officer sounds like a presentation for an award: "Our army cannot but express our sincere wishes to the respected army that the latter educate more such truly beautiful, worthy of full respect warriors."
D. Grigoriev, rg.ru
Russian sailors, not having an order, did not open fire on the Japanese, but as a result of inept maneuvering, two Japanese destroyers collided with each other and were damaged.
After that, four Japanese ships approached Port Arthur undetected and launched a torpedo attack. It was impossible to call it successful. Of the 16 torpedoes fired, thirteen either missed their targets or failed to explode. However, three torpedoes damaged three of the strongest Russian ships based in Port Arthur - the battleships Retvizan and Tsesarevich and the cruiser Pallada.
The first battle of the Russo-Japanese War continued in the morning, when the fleets began a skirmish from a distance of eight kilometers. The total losses in this battle amounted to 150 people for the Russians and 90 people for the Japanese.
The cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreets" are returning after the battle.
Only the next day, February 10, 1904, Japan officially declared war on Russia. Today we remember the exploits of the soldiers of the Russian army in this war.
The death of the destroyer "Guarding"
In St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side, there is a magnificent monument to all the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. On it, two surviving sailors of the destroyer "Guarding" open the kingstones in order to flood the ship and not give it to the enemy. The team of the "Guardian" really accomplished a real feat, only there are no kingstones on ships of this class and the "Guardian" sank itself from the holes received.
The destroyers "Guarding" and "Resolute" on February 10, the day of the official declaration of the Russo-Japanese war, were returning to Port Arthur when four Japanese destroyers "Akebono", "Sazanami", "Sinonome" and "Usugumo" blocked their way. Subsequently, they were joined by two cruisers "Tokiva" and "Chitose". The commanders of the Russian destroyers decided to avoid the battle, but only the Resolute managed to break through to Port Arthur. The "Guarding" boilers were damaged from a direct hit of the projectile, and he continued the battle, having practically lost his course. Despite the significant superiority of the enemy, "Guarding" fought for almost an hour.
Even at the beginning of the battle, the St. Andrew's flag was nailed to the mast so that it would not be accidentally torn off by an explosion. The commander of the ship, Lieutenant Sergeev, led the battle while lying on the deck with broken legs. When he died, Lieutenant N. Goloviznin took command, but he was soon struck down by shrapnel. At the end of the battle, when the ship could no longer shoot back, the heavily wounded mechanical engineer V. Anastasov commanded it. When the last gun fell silent, the dying signalman Kruzhkov, with the help of fireman Osinin, was able to throw the signal books overboard, tying a load to them.
All the officers and 45 out of 49 sailors died on the Guardian. The Japanese tried to tow the sinking destroyer, but failed - the ship sank, breaking the towing cable.
The first Russian submarine "Dolphin", which took part in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
Our proud Varyag does not surrender to the enemy
The beginning of the war was met by the legendary cruiser Varyag in the neutral Korean port of Chemulpo. The captain of the ship, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, had an order from the tsar's governor, Admiral Alekseev, not to get involved in Japanese provocations, so the cruiser remained in the roadstead even when the Japanese fired on the gunboat "Koreets", which was sent to Port Arthur with a report about the Japanese landing in the port .
On February 9, the captain of the Varyag, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, received an ultimatum from the Japanese: leave the port by 12 noon, otherwise Russian ships would be attacked in the roadstead. Rudnev decided to break through with a fight to Port Arthur, and in case of failure, blow up the ships. At noon, "Varangian" and "Korean" left Chemulpo. When leaving the port, Russian ships met the Japanese squadron, which occupied a position behind the island of Phamildo.
The heroic battle of the Varyag and the Korean against fourteen Japanese warships continued for an hour. "Varyag" and "Korean" destroyed the Japanese destroyer and cruiser, damaged another cruiser. But the Varyag itself was so riddled with shells that Rudnev decided to return to the port of Chemulpo. There they opened the kingstones on the cruiser and sank the ship. The gunboat "Koreets" was blown up. In this unprecedented battle, 1 officer and 30 sailors from the Varyag were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously wounded.
Soldiers erect fortifications for the defense of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
He closed the hole with his body
Russia still remembers another hero of the Russo-Japanese War. This is the mechanical engineer of the Russian destroyer "Strong" Vasily Zverev. On March 27, 1904, at 2:15 a.m., the Japanese attempted to block the entrance to the inner roadstead of Port Arthur by sending 4 large commercial ships there, accompanied by 6 destroyers.
The enemy's attempt was thwarted by the patrol destroyer "Strong". The ship rushed to the attack, dealt with the ships and entered into battle with six Japanese destroyers. Having received a hole in the steam pipeline, "Strong" turned into a fixed target for enemy fire. Then Zverev closed the hole with his body and returned the course to the ship, sacrificing his life. The dead were solemnly buried in Port Arthur.
Soldiers wounded during the Russo-Japanese War are sitting on a bench.
Before reading - eat
Grigory Khodosevich, commandant of the Port Arthur fortress, was on board the Russian destroyer Strashny when, on March 30, 1904, the ship entered into an unequal battle with four Japanese warships. 49 sailors were killed in the battle, only five people survived, including Khodosevich.
He ended up in icy water with a severe back injury. He had secret documents hidden under his life jacket. Seeing a Japanese boat approaching him, Khodasevich, with fingers stiff from the cold, began to tear the bag and eat the paper along with the seaweed. When the Japanese approached and lifted him on board, there was practically nothing left of the package. The interrogation also yielded nothing - Grigory Khodosevich did not say a word about the content of the secret documents. The hero was sent to a prisoner of war camp and returned to his homeland only after the war.
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich with officers of the 4th Siberian Cossack regiment.
Port Arthur - from here to eternity
One of the true heroes of the defense of Port Arthur, of course, is the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Roman Kondratenko. He personally led the defense in the most difficult and dangerous areas. Roman Kondratenko knew how to raise the morale of the soldiers in the most difficult moments of the siege of the city, which could several times reflect the assault of the Japanese. He died on December 15, 1904 from a direct hit in the casemate of the fort by a howitzer shell. 8 more officers died with him. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the body of the hero was solemnly reburied in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Emperor Nicholas II toured the formation of infantry regiments leaving for Manchuria.
The feat of the border guard
One of the heroes of Prot-Arthur was the lieutenant colonel of the Russian border guards, head of the Kwantung department of the Special Trans-Amur border district Pyotr Butusov.
In July 1904, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov led the search, in which the enemy cannon was blown up by border guards, and the locks were removed from three. On August 6, Butusov's border guards, together with the arrows, drove the Japanese out of the Water Redoubt they captured. On October 15, for the courage shown in the battles to repel the second assault on Port Arthur, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree.
On November 21, 1904, during the fourth assault on Port Arthur, Butusov was appointed commandant of High Mountain, where he was mortally wounded. He died on November 22 and was buried in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.
Captured Japanese, caught near the village of Yuhuangtun.
Russian "Chinese" Vasily Ryabov
The scout of the Russian army, Private Vasily Ryabov, repeatedly went to the rear of the Japanese in the clothes and wig of a Chinese peasant. And one day Ryabov's group ran into a Japanese patrol. Vasily Ryabov was taken prisoner, but during interrogation he steadfastly kept a military secret and, being sentenced to death, behaved with dignity. Everything happened strictly according to the ritual. Shot from guns from fifteen paces. Vasily Ryabov accepted death with open eyes.
The Japanese were delighted with the courageous behavior of the Russian and considered it their duty to bring this to the attention of his superiors. The note of the Japanese officer sounds like a presentation for an award: "Our army cannot but express our sincere wishes to the respected army that the latter educate more such truly beautiful, worthy of full respect warriors."
After that, four Japanese ships approached Port Arthur undetected and launched a torpedo attack. It was impossible to call it successful. Of the 16 torpedoes fired, thirteen either missed their targets or failed to explode. However, three torpedoes damaged three of the strongest Russian ships based in Port Arthur - the battleships "Retvisan" and "Tsesarevich" and the cruiser "Pallada".
The first battle of the Russo-Japanese War continued in the morning, when the fleets began a skirmish from a distance of eight kilometers. The total losses in this battle amounted to 150 people for the Russians and 90 people for the Japanese.
Only the next day, February 10, 1904, Japan officially declared war on Russia. Today we remember the exploits of the soldiers of the Russian army in this war.
The death of the destroyer "Guarding"
In St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side, there is a magnificent monument to all the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. On it, two surviving sailors of the destroyer "Guarding" open the kingstones in order to flood the ship and not give it to the enemy. The team of the "Guard" really accomplished a real feat, only there are no kingstones on ships of this class and the "Guard" sank itself from the holes received.
The destroyers "Guarding" and "Resolute" on February 10, the day of the official declaration of the Russo-Japanese war, were returning to Port Arthur when four Japanese destroyers "Akebono", "Sazanami", "Sinonome" and "Usugumo" blocked their way. Subsequently, they were joined by two cruisers "Tokiva" and "Chitose". The commanders of the Russian destroyers decided to avoid the battle, but only the "Resolute" managed to break through to Port Arthur. The "Guarding" boilers were damaged from a direct hit of the projectile, and he continued the battle, having practically lost his course. Despite the significant superiority of the enemy, "Guarding" fought for almost an hour.
Even at the beginning of the battle, the St. Andrew's flag was nailed to the mast so that it would not be accidentally torn off by an explosion. The commander of the ship, Lieutenant Sergeev, led the battle while lying on the deck with broken legs. When he died, Lieutenant N. Goloviznin took command, but he was soon struck down by shrapnel. At the end of the battle, when the ship could no longer shoot back, the heavily wounded mechanical engineer V. Anastasov commanded it. When the last gun fell silent, the dying signalman Kruzhkov, with the help of fireman Osinin, was able to throw the signal books overboard, tying a load to them.
All the officers and 45 out of 49 sailors died on the Guardian. The Japanese tried to tow the sinking destroyer, but failed - the ship sank, breaking the tow rope.
Our proud Varyag does not surrender to the enemy
The beginning of the war was met by the legendary cruiser Varyag in the neutral Korean port of Chemulpo. The captain of the ship, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, had an order from the tsar's governor, Admiral Alekseev, not to get involved in Japanese provocations, so the cruiser remained in the roadstead even when the Japanese fired on the gunboat "Koreets", which was sent to Port Arthur with a report about the Japanese landing in the port .
On February 9, the captain of the Varyag, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, received an ultimatum from the Japanese: leave the port before 12 noon, otherwise Russian ships would be attacked in the roadstead. Rudnev decided to break through with a fight to Port Arthur, and in case of failure, blow up the ships. At noon, "Varyag" and "Korean" left Chemulpo. When leaving the port, Russian ships met the Japanese squadron, which occupied a position behind the island of Phamildo.
The heroic battle of "Varyag" and "Korean" against fourteen Japanese warships lasted for an hour. "Varyag" and "Korean" destroyed a Japanese destroyer and a cruiser, damaged another cruiser. But the Varyag itself was so riddled with shells that Rudnev decided to return to the port of Chemulpo. There they opened the kingstones on the cruiser and sank the ship. The gunboat "Koreets" was blown up. In this unprecedented battle, 1 officer and 30 sailors from the Varyag were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously wounded.
He closed the hole with his body
Russia still remembers another hero of the Russo-Japanese War. This is the mechanical engineer of the Russian destroyer "Strong" Vasily Zverev. On March 27, 1904, at 2:15 a.m., the Japanese attempted to block the entrance to the inner roadstead of Port Arthur by sending 4 large commercial ships there, accompanied by 6 destroyers.
The enemy's attempt was thwarted by the patrol destroyer "Strong". The ship rushed to the attack, dealt with the ships and entered into battle with six Japanese destroyers. Having received a hole in the steam pipeline, "Strong" turned into a fixed target for enemy fire. Then Zverev closed the hole with his body and returned the course to the ship, sacrificing his life. The dead were solemnly buried in Port Arthur.
Before reading - eat
Grigory Khodosevich, commandant of the Port Arthur fortress, was on board the Russian destroyer Strashny when on March 30, 1904, the ship entered into an unequal battle with four Japanese warships. 49 sailors were killed in the battle, only five people survived, including Khodosevich.
He ended up in icy water with a severe back injury. He had secret documents hidden under his life jacket. Seeing a Japanese boat approaching him, Khodasevich, with fingers stiff from the cold, began to tear the bag and eat the paper along with the seaweed. When the Japanese approached and lifted him on board, there was practically nothing left of the package. The interrogation also yielded nothing - Grigory Khodosevich did not say a word about the content of the secret documents. The hero was sent to a prisoner of war camp and returned to his homeland only after the war.
Port Arthur - from here to eternity
One of the true heroes of the defense of Port Arthur, of course, is the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Roman Kondratenko. He personally led the defense in the most difficult and dangerous areas. Roman Kondratenko knew how to raise the morale of the soldiers in the most difficult moments of the siege of the city, which could several times reflect the assault of the Japanese. He died on December 15, 1904 from a direct hit in the casemate of the fort by a howitzer shell. 8 more officers died with him. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the body of the hero was solemnly reburied in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The feat of the border guard
One of the heroes of Prot-Arthur was the lieutenant colonel of the Russian border guards, head of the Kwantung department of the Special Trans-Amur border district Pyotr Butusov.
In July 1904, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov led the search, in which the enemy cannon was blown up by border guards, and the locks were removed from three. On August 6, Butusov's border guards, together with the arrows, drove the Japanese out of the Water Redoubt they captured. On October 15, for the courage shown in the battles to repel the second assault on Port Arthur, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree.
On November 21, 1904, during the fourth assault on Port Arthur, Butusov was appointed commandant of High Mountain, where he was mortally wounded. He died on November 22 and was buried in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.
Russian "Chinese" Vasily Ryabov
The scout of the Russian army, Private Vasily Ryabov, repeatedly went to the rear of the Japanese in the clothes and wig of a Chinese peasant. And one day Ryabov's group ran into a Japanese patrol. Vasily Ryabov was taken prisoner, but during interrogation he steadfastly kept a military secret and, being sentenced to death, behaved with dignity. Everything happened strictly according to the ritual. Shot from guns from fifteen paces. Vasily Ryabov accepted death with open eyes.
The Japanese were delighted with the courageous behavior of the Russian and considered it their duty to bring this to the attention of his superiors. The note of the Japanese officer sounds like a presentation for an award: "Our army cannot but express our sincere wishes to the respected army that the latter educate more such truly beautiful, worthy of full respect warriors."
Defense of Port Arthur, 1905
On the night of February 8-9, 1904 without declaring war, the Japanese squadron attacked the Russian naval base of Port Arthur. This was preceded by a meeting at sea of Russian and Japanese ships. Russian sailors, not having an order, did not open fire on the Japanese, but as a result of inept maneuvering, two Japanese destroyers collided with each other and were damaged.
After that, four Japanese ships approached Port Arthur undetected and launched a torpedo attack. It was impossible to call it successful. Of the 16 torpedoes fired, thirteen either missed their targets or failed to explode. However, three torpedoes damaged three of the strongest Russian ships based in Port Arthur - the battleships "Retvisan" and "Tsesarevich" and the cruiser "Pallada".
Soldiers build fortifications in the defense of Port Arthur
Fire at the Golden Mountain during the defense of Port Arthur, 1905
The first battle of the Russo-Japanese War continued in the morning, when the fleets began a skirmish from a distance of eight kilometers. The total losses in this battle amounted to 150 people for the Russians and 90 people for the Japanese.
Only the next day, February 10, 1904, Japan officially declared war on Russia. Today we remember the exploits of the soldiers of the Russian army in this war.
The death of the destroyer "Guarding"
In St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side, there is a magnificent monument to all the sailors who died in the Russo-Japanese War. On it, two surviving sailors of the destroyer "Guarding" open the kingstones in order to flood the ship and not give it to the enemy. The team of the "Guard" really accomplished a real feat, only there are no kingstones on ships of this class and the "Guard" sank itself from the holes received.
The first Russian submarine "Dolphin", which took part in the Russo-Japanese War
The destroyers "Guarding" and "Resolute" on February 10, the day of the official declaration of the Russo-Japanese war, were returning to Port Arthur when four Japanese destroyers "Akebono", "Sazanami", "Sinonome" and "Usugumo" blocked their way. Subsequently, they were joined by two cruisers "Tokiva" and "Chitose". The commanders of the Russian destroyers decided to avoid the battle, but only the "Resolute" managed to break through to Port Arthur. The "Guarding" boilers were damaged from a direct hit of the projectile, and he continued the battle, having practically lost his course. Despite the significant superiority of the enemy, "Guarding" fought for almost an hour.
Even at the beginning of the battle, the St. Andrew's flag was nailed to the mast so that it would not be accidentally torn off by an explosion. The commander of the ship, Lieutenant Sergeev, led the battle while lying on the deck with broken legs. When he died, Lieutenant N. Goloviznin took command, but he was soon struck down by shrapnel. At the end of the battle, when the ship could no longer shoot back, the heavily wounded mechanical engineer V. Anastasov commanded it. When the last gun fell silent, the dying signalman Kruzhkov, with the help of fireman Osinin, was able to throw the signal books overboard, tying a load to them.
All the officers and 45 out of 49 sailors died on the Guardian. The Japanese tried to tow the sinking destroyer, but failed - the ship sank, breaking the tow rope.
Operating room in a field hospital during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905
Wounded soldiers in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Our proud Varyag does not surrender to the enemy
The beginning of the war was met by the legendary cruiser Varyag in the neutral Korean port of Chemulpo. The captain of the ship, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, had an order from the tsar's governor, Admiral Alekseev, not to get involved in Japanese provocations, so the cruiser remained in the roadstead even when the Japanese fired on the gunboat "Koreets", which was sent to Port Arthur with a report about the Japanese landing in the port .
The cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreets" are returning after a hard battle to the Korean port of Chemulpo
On February 9, the captain of the Varyag, Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, received an ultimatum from the Japanese: leave the port before 12 noon, otherwise Russian ships would be attacked in the roadstead. Rudnev decided to break through with a fight to Port Arthur, and in case of failure, blow up the ships. At noon, "Varyag" and "Korean" left Chemulpo. When leaving the port, Russian ships met the Japanese squadron, which occupied a position behind the island of Phamildo.
The heroic battle of "Varyag" and "Korean" against fourteen Japanese warships lasted for an hour. "Varyag" and "Korean" destroyed a Japanese destroyer and a cruiser, damaged another cruiser. But the Varyag itself was so riddled with shells that Rudnev decided to return to the port of Chemulpo. There they opened the kingstones on the cruiser and sank the ship. The gunboat "Koreets" was blown up. In this unprecedented battle, 1 officer and 30 sailors from the Varyag were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously wounded.
He closed the hole with his body
Russia still remembers another hero of the Russo-Japanese War. This is the mechanical engineer of the Russian destroyer "Strong" Vasily Zverev. On March 27, 1904, at 2:15 a.m., the Japanese made an attempt to block the entrance to the inner roadstead of Port Arthur by sending 4 large commercial ships there, accompanied by 6 destroyers.
The enemy's attempt was thwarted by the patrol destroyer "Strong". The ship rushed to the attack, dealt with the ships and entered into battle with six Japanese destroyers. Having received a hole in the steam pipeline, "Strong" turned into a fixed target for enemy fire. Then Zverev closed the hole with his body and returned the course to the ship, sacrificing his life. The dead were solemnly buried in Port Arthur.
Emperor Nicholas II inspects the formation of regiments leaving for Manchuria
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich together with officers of the 4th Siberian Cossack regiment
Before reading - eat
Grigory Khodosevich, commandant of the Port Arthur fortress, was on board the Russian destroyer Strashny when on March 30, 1904, the ship entered into an unequal battle with four Japanese warships. 49 sailors were killed in the battle, only five people survived, including Khodosevich.
He ended up in icy water with a severe back injury. He had secret documents hidden under his life jacket. Seeing a Japanese boat approaching him, Khodasevich, with fingers stiff from the cold, began to tear the bag and eat the paper along with the seaweed. When the Japanese approached and lifted him on board, there was practically nothing left of the package. The interrogation also yielded nothing - Grigory Khodosevich did not say a word about the content of the secret documents. The hero was sent to a prisoner of war camp and returned to his homeland only after the war.
Captured Japanese taken at the village of Yuhuangtun
Port Arthur - from here to eternity
One of the true heroes of the defense of Port Arthur, of course, is the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Roman Kondratenko. He personally led the defense in the most difficult and dangerous areas. Roman Kondratenko knew how to raise the morale of the soldiers in the most difficult moments of the siege of the city, which could several times reflect the assault of the Japanese. He died on December 15, 1904 from a direct hit in the casemate of the fort by a howitzer shell. 8 more officers died with him. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the body of the hero was solemnly reburied in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The feat of the border guard
Another of the heroes of Port Arthur was the lieutenant colonel of the Russian border guards, head of the Kwantung department of the Special Trans-Amur border district Pyotr Butusov.
In July 1904, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov led the search, in which the enemy cannon was blown up by border guards, and the locks were removed from three. On August 6, Butusov's border guards, together with the arrows, drove the Japanese out of the Water Redoubt they captured. On October 15, for the courage shown in the battles to repel the second assault on Port Arthur, Lieutenant Colonel Butusov was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree.
On November 21, 1904, during the fourth assault on Port Arthur, Butusov was appointed commandant of High Mountain, where he was mortally wounded. He died on November 22 and was buried in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.
Orenburg Cossacks at rest. Russo-Japanese War 1994 - 1905
Russians in ambush in Kaoliang
Russian "Chinese" Vasily Ryabov
The scout of the Russian army, Private Vasily Ryabov, repeatedly went to the rear of the Japanese in the clothes and wig of a Chinese peasant. And one day Ryabov's group ran into a Japanese patrol. Vasily Ryabov was taken prisoner, but during interrogation he steadfastly kept a military secret and, being sentenced to death, behaved with dignity. Everything happened strictly according to the ritual. Shot from guns from fifteen paces. Vasily Ryabov accepted death with open eyes.
The Japanese were delighted with the courageous behavior of the Russian and considered it their duty to bring this to the attention of his superiors. The note of the Japanese officer sounds like a presentation for an award: "Our army cannot but express our sincere wishes to the respected army that the latter educate more such truly beautiful, worthy of full respect warriors."
Dmitry Grigoriev - Rossiyskaya Gazeta