The ships that have irretrievably left us and their people, who have all already left this world, remain with us not only as destinies that have gone down in history, but also as lessons that we should think about many times. Lasting an insignificantly short historical period - some 10-odd years, the active service of the “volunteers” turned out to be, as we could see, saturated with the enormous wisdom of the lessons of the past. The very lessons that the 300-year-old Russian autocracy stubbornly refused to see, and, what is especially surprising, its modern perestroika fans and guardians do not want to see.