According to the chief fairway of the era. From the last sail to the first rocket

The famous military historian Svetlana Sumchenko in the book "on the chief fairway of the era. From the last sail to the first rocket, he talks about the ships of the times of “armor and steam”, about their creation, design and the great battles in which they had a chance to participate.
"Novgorod", "Admiral Nakhimov", "Pearls", "Krasin", "Maxim Gorky", "Tashkent" - ships of the extraordinary design and fate, which are undeservedly faded into the background or completely forgotten by everyone except specialists Fleet stories.
Work with archival sources, meetings with sailors, eyewitnesses of those events and their descendants, the study of drawings and schemes allowed the author to conduct a deep analysis of the development of the naval case of the turn of the 19-20 centuries