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Amount of gold aside, it looks like the Dmitrii Donskoi sank during or around the battle of Tsushima, having sailed all the way from the Baltic, and around the
by lainga 8y ago
Amount of gold aside, it looks like the Dmitrii Donskoi sank during or around the battle of Tsushima, having sailed all the way from the Baltic, and around the Cape of Good Hope, in one of the most ignominious and infamous fleet movements in history. Why would Russia put several hundred metric tonnes of gold on a cruiser which was heading to fight Japanese warships?
- cafard 8y agoTo pay the troops at Port Arthur, and because it anticipated winning any battles along the way.
- lostlogin 8y agoThe whole thing was a farce. I’m not sure if it was a thing common with other navies but reading the history of the ship is reading a long list of accidents and mistakes. The shambles of the war with the Japanese is is well covered in Montifiore’s book on the Romanovs, and he presents it as a collection of worn out ships, a badly led navy and a massive vanity project with a healthy dose of racism leading to underestimation of Japanese abilities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Dmitrii_Donskoi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Dmitrii_Dons...