110 years of the Battle of Tsushima
27(14) of May 1905 Russian the 2nd Pacific squadron under command by Vice Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky met in the Tsushima strait with the Royal Japanese navy under command by admiral Heihachiro Togo. After more then 5 hours battle 4 Russian battleships were seriously damaged and sank, between them was Rozhestvensky’s flag-ship “Knyaz Suvorov”. Before the ship sank, Rozhestvensky was transferred to the destroyer “Buiny”. Command devolved to Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. During the night, several Russian ships were sunk by torpedo attacks of Japaneese destroyers. When the sun rose the next morning, Heihachiro Togo moved in to engage the remnants of Russian squadron. They met again and having only six ships Nebogatov hoisted the signal to surrender. Admiral Rozhestvensky surrendered later this day on board of the destroyer “Bedovyi”.
More information here http://tsushima.su in Russian and http://www.russojapanesewar.com/tsushima.html in English
10 minutes fragment from Japaneese movie Nihonkai Daikaisen ( “Great Naval Battle in the Sea of Japan”), directed by Seiji Maruyama, 1969.
Unfortunately until now nobody made such movie about this battle in Russia, but it maybe could be better then the Mikhalkov’s horrible movie, falled down in Cannes.
