Title: Top masts of the Russian cruiser Variag Description: Top masts of the Russian cruiser Variag which sank after a pre-emptive torpedo attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy in Chemulpo Harbor off the coast of what is present-day Inchon, Korea, on February 9, 1904; the Battle of Chemulpo was an opening stage of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); Chemulpo was strategically important since it was the main port for the Korean capital of Seoul; the Russo-Japanese 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, 1904, a day before the Chemulpo attack, 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: Battle of Chemulpo, Korea, films, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, Inchon, Korea, Japan, Japanese Empire, Japanese Imperial Navy, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Russia, Russian cruisers, Russian Empire, Russian Navy, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), ships, Variag, warships, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1350 x 1093 (1.48 MPixels) (1.24) Print Size: 11.4 x 9.3 cm; 4.5 x 3.6 inches File Size: 4.25 MB (4,459,994 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038078 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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