Title: Captain Crown, commander of the Imperial Russian Navy Description: Captain Crown, commander of the Imperial Russian Navy gunboat Mandjur, a small but heavily-armed boat stationed at the neutral harbor of Shanghai, China; the Japanese wanted the ship removed from the harbor and to take part in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), but it remained at Shanghai, its guns removed so she was no longer a ship of war; 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); the war began with pre-emptive attacks by the Japan Navy on Imperial Russian Navy ships at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and Chemulpo Harbor, Korea on February 8-9, 1904; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks in 1905; 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: Chemulpo, Korea, Chenampo, Korea, films, gunboat, Imperial Russia, Imperial Russian Navy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Mandjur, Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian gunboat, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Shanghai, China, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1350 x 1394 (1.88 MPixels) (1.03) Print Size: 11.4 x 11.8 cm; 4.5 x 4.6 inches File Size: 5.42 MB (5,678,912 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038194 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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