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Title: Anatoly Stoessel

Description: Anatoly Stoessel (Anatoly Mikhaylovich Stoessel; July 10, 1848-January 18, 1915), a Russian baron and Lieutenant General in command of the Imperial Russian Army force at Port Arthur, Manchuria, Imperial Russia's stronghold on the Yellow Sea, who was responsible for the fall of the city to the Japanese on January 2, 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); in order to save rations for his troops, he ordered most of the civilians to leave the city before the battle; 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 in what today is Inchon, Korea, 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: films, generals, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Military leaders, Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Army, Russian Empire, Russian generals, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s.