The version of the death of the schooner “St. Anna” proposed by D. Alekseev and P. Novokshonov is very interesting and convincing. Analysis of the laws of ice drift carried out from the Arctic Ocean through the Greenland Sea to the Atlantic confirms the possibility of the schooner reaching clean water. Without a radio station, Brusilov did not know that there was a war going on, and, as the authors suggest, having emerged from captivity in the ice, he headed for the North Sea, where the schooner was torpedoed by one of the submarines of the German fleet, which sank not only merchant ships, but also ships Red Cross. However, this version has one weak link. By the end of its many years of drift, the St. Anna did not have a sufficient supply of food or fuel, and, of course, the most sober and realistic decision of the ship’s commander would have been to call at the nearest port to replenish everything necessary and repair the battered ship, for the path ahead lay along stormy autumn seas. The closest were Jan Mayen and Iceland. But “Saint Anna” did not come here. This objection does not deny the logic of the new version, and let’s hope that archival research will confirm the bold assumption of its authors.