The Hot Autumn of 1904

The Russian squadron that set out at the end of 2012 toward the shores of Syria ended up in 1904 through an unknown way. It found itself near Chemulpo, where the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Koreets” entered a deadly clash with the Japanese squadron. Our sailors couldn’t stay aside—because “Russians in wartime don’t abandon their own.” This intervention in the course of history and the events that followed served as the impetus not only for changing the course of the Russo-Japanese War, but also for changing the course of all world history. Japan was defeated both at sea and on land. Yet Emperor Nicholas II fell victim to British intelligence.

Many events happened since then. Japan was forced to sign a peace treaty, and the emperor’s daughter Matsuhito became the spouse of the new Russian tsar Mikhail II. The Bolshevik leader Lenin returned to Russia, where, together with the runaway exiled settler Joseph Dzhugashvili, he agreed to take part in building a new Russia. But not everyone liked the changes in the empire’s domestic and foreign policy. Enemies are ready for revenge.