It is easy to talk about the mistakes of ancestors while sitting in a chair at a computer. Moreover, if you are seriously carried away by the history of the fleet, your soul sincerely hurts for the defeat of the Motherland in a long-died war, and knowledge allows you to judge their causes. Only now you can't fix anything in the past, even if you really wanted to... What if? What if you get a chance? A chance that, in theory, simply cannot present itself? This is the chance that falls to the protagonist of this book. But, looking through the eyes of Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, the commander of the cruiser Varyag, at the raid of the port of Chemulpo a day before the famous battle with the Japanese squadron, he realizes that the knowledge of a fan of maritime history, patriotism and personal courage may not be enough to get out of an unequal battle winner. However, the lot is cast! It is time to test his ideas, theories and calculations with iron and blood. "The guns are preparing for battle in a row, they sparkle ominously in the sun!.."