About the book: 1997 / April 26, 1881, crews belonging to to the highest ranks of the Naval and Military Departments. Somewhat later than the others, the carriage of Alexei Alexandrovich himself, the Admiral General who was in charge of the entire Russian Imperial Fleet, stopped at the gate. For several years now, the importance of the upcoming meeting had been laid on the tables of the highest dignitaries one after another. reports of naval agents (in modern language, attachés) located in various countries. And if reports from America, Japan, Spain and Italy aroused rather abstract interest, and from England and France only purely technical interest, then reports from Germany became more and more so. and were more disturbing from a strategic point of view. All reports from the naval agent in Germany, Lieutenant Domozhirov, went straight to the desk of the head of the Naval Ministry, the Admiral General, and even Emperor Alexander II himself, whose life was so tragically cut short just a month before the meeting. Note. . OCR: Sections with old style (pre-revolutionary) text are approximately preserved.