Rendezvous with the Varyag

The Russian squadron that set out at the end of 2012 toward the shores of Syria unexpectedly found itself in 1904, near the port of Chemulpo, where the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Koreets” entered a deadly fight with the Japanese squadron. Our sailors couldn’t stay aside, because “Russians in war don’t abandon their own.”

On the ships of the squadron, combat alert is declared, and DRLO helicopters shoot into the air. Without declaring war, the Japanese launch a treacherous attack first—thereby starting a war without rules. The retaliatory strike of the Russians from the future, intended to destroy the aggressor completely, was terrifying. And then, as it happens with us Russians: “who didn’t hide is not to blame.”

This interference and the events that followed it served not only to change the course of the Russo-Japanese War, but the course of all world history. To find out how it happened, read this and the subsequent books of the series “Rendezvous with Varyag.”