In our time, it has become possible to learn about new unexpected judgments concerning a wide range of events in Russian and Soviet history, both distant and not so distant. This book by the historian and writer S. N. Semanov presents the events of the Russo-Japanese War in a new light. In this war, Russia was left alone, while Japan had behind it almost the entire Western world. At the center of the narrative is Admiral Makarov, whose death, according to the author, prevented Russia from winning this war.