The Russian fleet that was left without honor and without ships

The Japanese Admiral Togo, on the bridge of the 'Mikasa' at the start of the Battle of Tsushima.

It is a work of the Japanese painter Tojo Shotaro.

I have spent some very intense days in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 and its culmination in the naval battle of Tsushima (May 27 and 28, 1905).

The truth is, it is a contest that I had never been interested in the least (well, there are wars) and I only explain that it has ended up in it because of the desire to escape from this strange time, the further in space and time, better.

It is also true that circumstances have made it easy for me.

Not only have I remembered, reviewing my travel diaries ...

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