About the book: 2010 / There are quite a few materials in print that covered in one way or another how the general state of maritime affairs on the eve and during the war with Japan, and the causes of the Tsushima disaster. The first place among these materials belongs, undoubtedly, to the testimony of persons who were direct observers of the events, the logical consequence of which was the death of our fleet at Tsushima. One of such impartial evidence. are the letters published in this book to the father of the Russian fleet lieutenant Pyotr Aleksandrovich Vyrubov. He, together with Lieutenant N.P. Bogdanov and Ensign V. von Kursel-Werner and a handful of the crew, accepted martyrdom for their homeland on the battleship “Prince Suvorov” that died in the Tsushima battle.”.