Title: Russian troops mobilizing in southeastern Russia Description: Russian troops mobilizing in southeastern Russia for transportation northward in 1904 at the start of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); Russian infantry regalements are marching along the main road, while artillery and transport wagons move up in the middle distance of the photograph; a large body of Russian cavalry stretches off toward the horizon; the war resulted from a long-standing aggressive policy of Russian Czar Nicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov; May 18, 1868-July 17, 1918) in the Far East that led to friction with Japanese Emperor Mutsuhito (AKA: The Meiji Emperor or The Mikado; November 3, 1852-July 30, 1912); Japanese Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Togo (Togo Heihachiro; January 27, 1848-May 30, 1934) sent torpedo boats to attack the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Manchuria, Imperial Russia's stronghold on the Yellow Sea, on February 8-9, 1904, and also Russian ships across Korea Bay at Chemulpo Harbor, and war was declared two days later; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks; Russia ceded to Japan the Liaodong Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin; Japan gained further interests in Korea and annexed the former kingdom in 1910; Russia and Japan promised to evacuate Manchuria in favor of China; two Japanese movies tell about the war: Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957), and Battle of Japan Sea (1969); the demise of the czar and his family is told in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971 UK films); Category: Russo-Japanese War Keywords: cavalry, films, horses, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Army, Russian cavalry, Russian Empire, Russian infantry, Russian soldiers, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 3675 x 2451 (9.01 MPixels) (1.50) Print Size: 31.1 x 20.8 cm; 12.3 x 8.2 inches File Size: 25.80 MB (27,052,242 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038068 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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