The vicissitudes of war are unpredictable. From small accidents that complement one another, a major nuisance can arise. And then everything that we have already gotten used to is swept away suddenly and roughly. So in Vladivostok, over the past almost six months, they firmly believed in the impossibility of a full-scale invasion of the surrounding waters, but they were severely disappointed. The subsequent actions of both sides led to the next general battle, which Rozhdestvensky did not want, where luck, which, as we know, favors the prepared, was again on the side of the Russians. However, the enemy showed himself in a new, unexpected way.