In the besieged Port Arthur. Diary of a sister of mercy

Communities of St. George, a participant in the Anglo-Burian and Russian-Japanese wars. Since February 1904, she served on the Mongolia hospital, in the summer of the same year- in the coastal hospital Port-Arthur. In her diary, she openly describes difficult conditions in hospitals, gives examples of heroism and courage of wounded soldiers and sailors, tells about the circumstances of the death of heroes: Admiral S.O. Makarov, women with the rank of ordinary H.E. Korotkevich, Lieutenant E. A. Maleeva It mentions many ships of the Port Arthur squadron: the cruiser Bayan, the battleships “Retvizan”, “Petropavlovsk”, the hospital ship “Angara” and others. The publication is supplemented by a preface, comments and the nominal index of the candidate of historical sciences L. A. Mozhaeva