The enemy does not surrender our proud "Varyag" (29 photos)

The author writes, parovoz:

On my desk almost by accident hit album The Russo-Japanese War («the Russian-Japanese war"), published in England in 1904. Actually, the war has not yet been formally completed, so that the photos in the album, we can say with piping hot. I offer you a small sample (total 144 album pages and more than 300 photographs). Quality, of course, is mediocre, but like those pictures in the Soviet and post-Soviet press have not been published.

The division of the Russian army, mobilized in southwestern Russia





Burning cruiser "Varyag" in the harbor Chemulpo



The tops of the towers of the cruiser "Varyag", submerged in the harbor Chemulpo



Pipe gunboat "Korean", sunken February 9



Explosion gunboat "Korean»



The cruiser "Varyag" before the fight in Chemulpo



Russian warships in Chemulpo the day before the death of



Battleship "Retvizan." It was built in Philadelphia in 1900. Displacement 12,700 tons. Armor thickness of 230 mm. Speed ​​18 5 knots. Four 12-inch 12 6-inch, March 20-inch and 26 small-caliber guns.



Protected cruisers "Pallada". Built in St. Petersburg in 1899, 6600 tons displacement. The speed of 20 knots. Six 6-inch, 20 March and 8-inch small-caliber guns.



The battleship "Tsarevich". Built in 1901 in Seyne. Displacement 13 th. Tons. The thickness of the armor from 222 to 248 mm. The speed of 18 knots. Four 12-inch 12 6-inch, March 20-inch and 32 small-caliber guns.



Battleship "Retvizan" on the rocks at the entrance to the harbor of Port Arthur



Russian cavalry on the ice lake. Baikal



Carts with artillery on the ice lake. Baikal



Railway Transportation horse-drawn carriages traction on the ice lake. Baikal



23th Artillery Brigade sent to the front from Gatchina



Russian artillery and soldiers on the way to the front



Russian infantry marching on Liaoyang



Cossack officer in Mukden



Russian guns "Maxim", captured by the Japanese during the two-day Battle of the Yalu River



Japanese medics carry a wounded Russian soldiers after the battle at p. Yalu



Japanese bury two Russian officers killed at Tyurenchena



General Baron Kaulbars welcomes surviving sailors of the "Varyag" and "Korean" on their arrival in Odessa



Crews "Varyag" and "Korean" swim along the Neva to the Winter Palace



General Kuropatkin awards soldier crosses of St. George, Liaoyang



Negotiations at Port Arthur: Japanese and Russian white flags



General Stoessel at the station waiting for a train to the Far after the surrender of Port Arthur



Fire on engineering warehouses in Port Arthur, the Japanese set on fire projectiles



Russian troops retreating from Mukden, crossed the frozen river



Battleship "Sisoy Great." Built in 1894; displacement of 8800 tons, four 12-inch and six 6-inch guns, 18 guns of smaller caliber, six torpedo tubes.

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