About the book: 2012 / The Russian-Japanese War (1904–1905) left a very deep mark in the soul and memory of the Russian people. To this day, the ardent interest of our compatriots in the tragic and heroic events of those distant years does not dry up. This war largely determined the fate of not only Japan, but also Russia. But if Japan’s victory became an incentive for the country to move along the path of progress and increased its international authority, then Russia’s defeat further aggravated the contradictions and difficulties that our country faced at the turn of two centuries. We can say that this defeat became the detonator of the events that shook Russia in 1917 and led to the fall of the Empire. But we have nothing to fear from the memory of Tsushima. The truth, which we should be proud of, showed that the Russian people have not lost their heroic spirit. This truth has been the driving force of the Russian people for a thousand years, that living water that unites the temporarily disparate parts of the Russian state again and raises the country from the bed of a mortal illness, resurrecting it to a new life..