ABSTRACT
Kontre Admiral. He was defeated at the battle of Tsushima (1905), by TOGO. He entered the Imperial Russian Navy in 1865, and served in the Russo-Turkish War,
1877-78. In the aftermath of that war he was seconded to build up a Bulgarian Navy, as another counter to Turkish aspirations in the Black Sea. He served as the Russian naval attaché in London, and in 1901, as a Kapitan I ranga, was Gunnery Officer of the Baltic Fleet. In 1902 he came to the tsar’s notice and was promoted Kontre Admiral in 1904.
