Title: Ceremony in Alexander Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia Description: Ceremony in Alexander Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia, honoring and presenting mementoes to the officers who served the Imperial Russian Navy at Chemulpo, Korea, during the pre-emptive torpedo attack on Russian ships by the Imperial Japanese Navy; the attacks began the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); ); 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, Imperial Russia, Imperial Russian Navy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Korietz, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Odessa, Russia, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), ships, St. Petersburg, Russia, warships, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2775 x 1761 (4.89 MPixels) (1.58) Print Size: 23.5 x 14.9 cm; 9.3 x 5.9 inches File Size: 14.01 MB (14,695,446 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038253 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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