The Russian squadron, which reached the shores of Syria at the end of 2012, unexpectedly ended up in 1904 near Chemulpo, where the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Koreets” entered into mortal combat with the Japanese squadron. Our sailors could not stand aside - after all, “Russians do not abandon their own in war. Only this intervention and the events that followed it served as an impetus not only for changing the course of the Russo-Japanese War, but also for changing the course of entire world history. Japan was defeated at sea and on land. But Emperor Nicholas II fell victim to British agents. Many events have happened since then. Japan was forced to sign a peace treaty, the pledge of which was the daughter of Emperor Matsuhito becoming the bride of the new Russian Tsar Michael II. The Bolshevik leader Lenin returned to Russia, where, together with the fugitive exile Joseph Dzhugashvili, he agreed to take part in the construction of a new Russia.