The Romanovs and the Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima

In 1905, the Imperial Russian Navy sailed halfway around the world only to be annihilated in the Tsushima Strait. This episode dives into the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval clash of the Russo-Japanese War. We follow Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky's Second Pacific Squadron on its grueling 18,000-mile voyage from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of Japan, plagued by mechanical failures, coal shortages, and the infamous Dogger Bank incident where Russian ships fired on British trawlers. We then explore how Admiral Heihachiro Togo's Japanese fleet used superior tactics and the element of surprise to destroy nearly the entire Russian fleet in a single day. The battle shattered Russia's naval power and humiliated the Romanov regime, fueling the 1905 Revolution. We also touch on the Battle of Port Arthur and the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the war. A story of hubris, tragedy, and the dawn of Japan as a world power. #RussoJapaneseWar #BattleOfTsushima #ZinovyRozhestvensky #HeihachiroTogo #SecondPacificSquadron #DoggerBank #PortArthur #TreatyOfPortsmouth #ImperialRussianNavy #ImperialJapaneseNavy #1905Revolution #NicholasII #NavalHistory #EasternEurope #Romanovs #History #FexingoHistory #TsushimaStrait Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo