Maximilian Oskarovich von Kube was a senior lieutenant of the Russian Navy, a naval historian, writer, and public figure, a member of the Union of Naval Officers in Constantinople. After emigrating to France, he worked as an editor for the journal “Notes of the Naval History Circle.” He was involved in collecting and systematizing historical documents, and in compiling a card index of ships of the Russian Imperial Fleet; he also wrote several memoir-style books about his life and everyday life aboard the fleet.