We offer to attention of readers the row of the researches sanctified to history of military fleet of the Russian empire, that were written on the border of ХIХ - XX of centuries by leading specialists in this area. First of all the question is about "Short history of the Russian fleet" - fundamental labour of Ф. Ф. Веселаго. Hired not once published in the USSR and in modern Russia, but only in a release 1939 year - strongly brief in accordance with by the ideological options of that time. To the real book complete text is driven of this two-volume edition, coming into the world in 1893 and 1895. Here are fragments of book "Whether a fleet and value of him Need to us in history of Russia" П. И. Белавенца and four reading "About Russian-Japanese war at the seaside" of Н. Н. Беклемишева, read on meeting military and marine departments of Emperor's Russian of technical society in October, 1906. Neat works are illustrated by rare maps, documents, engraving and photos that pass the atmosphere of the described period.