Zatopienie pancernika „Pietropawłowsk” oraz postać wiceadmirała Stiepana Makarowa na łamach „Kuriera Warszawskiego” z kwietnia 1904 roku

Abstract

The author focuses on one of the finest Russian admirals of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Stepan Osipovich Makarov. The text is split into three parts, presenting several topics discussed in “Kurier Warszawski”, based on historical contents. The Polish press presents, for example, biography of the fallen Russian, and short reports of church devotions dedicated to him. Also included are simultaneously interesting and frightening descriptions of his reactions on losing his family. Another element of the work are his messages concerning the battle between Russian and Japanese fleets and the tragic death of the Russian admiral. The data on the casualties of the officers are the same as historiography presents. In case of navy, the number of the fallen differs from the number presented by Olender and Dyskant. Technical parameters of the sunken Russian ship match the observations made by researchers, although the moment of sinking differs from the findings made by this field’s professionals in the following decades.