The Russo-Japanese War
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A 19th-century battlecruiser. An alternative “Super-Ryurik” for the Russian Imperial Navy
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The idea for this ship came from our colleague Stvolyar, but I’m posting this on my own behalf since I didn’t contribute anything beyond the general concept ...

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The Fascinating Story of a Ship That Never Existed. What If the “Novik” Were Built as an Armored Cruiser?
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The August sun of 1904 beat down mercilessly, turning the surface of the sea into a molten mirror across which steel silhouettes glided. Heavy, gunpowder-laden ...

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Assemble and Divide 2.0: Balanced Cruisers for the Russian Imperial Navy
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I'm reposting this article because new illustrations have been added. A recently conceived idea to “compile and distribute” the technical specifications of ...

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The "Novik" with 7-inch guns. What the Russian "killer" of Japanese "puppies" might have become
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A heavy, salty fog crept slowly across the waters of Aniva Bay, obscuring the silhouettes of the ships like ghosts shrouded in gray gauze. On the ...

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The World of Russian 7-Inch Guns: What the Squadron Armored Cruiser "Sisoy the Great" Might Have Become in This World
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Earlier, we explored an alternate world in which the Russian Empire, at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s, adopted 7-inch guns for its navy. For simplicity’s ...

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The World of Russian 7-Inch Guns. The RIF’s Main Striking Force in the Russo-Japanese War: The 14,000-metric-ton “Retvizan”-class squadron battleships
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Other articles in this series This is perhaps the most important and interesting article on the world of Russian 7-inch guns. It will focus on the mainstay ...

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Build and Divide. A Decent “Gangut.” Small Coastal Defense Battleships for the Russian Imperial Navy
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I'm continuing the discussion on a more capable Russian Navy on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War.   If we look at the keel-laying dates (or, ...

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Peter's Heir: Nicholas II, the Modernizer. Part 1.
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Across our website, people often try to “correct” the fate of the Russian Empire through the figure of Nicholas II. Some insert time travelers from the future ...

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In anticipation of dazzling happiness
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You could call it the trendy term “side-well.” To some, the ending of *Become a Shadow for Evil* might seem lackluster (to me too, since the characters did all ...

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