The Russian squadron, which reached the shores of Syria at the end of 2012, like an epic knight, found itself at a crossroads. Unknown powerful forces sent her, as they say, in all four directions. The heroes of this book were lucky - they ended up in 1904 near Chemulpo, where the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Koreets” entered into a mortal battle with the Japanese squadron. Our sailors, naturally, could not stand aside, because “Russians do not abandon their own in war.” This intervention and the events that followed it served to change the course of not only the Russo-Japanese War, but also the entire world history...