Russian-Japanese War. The most bitter and most glorious page in Russian history at the beginning of the 20th century. The most bitter — because the Russian Empire has never known a war waged so absurdly and ineptly.
The most glorious — because the officers and soldiers who became «modest heroes» of this war, worked wonders of courage and courage.
The propeller-driven clipper «Rider», with a young warrant officer Vladimir Kokovtsev on board, enters the Japanese port of Nagasaki in 1880. For the young crew of the ship, who has never been abroad, everything in Japan is new. Kokovtsev, like everyone else, has a «temporary wife». It was the young Okini-san …
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