Жизнь и смерть на корабле Российского Императорского Флота

The ship was a second home for a Russian sailor, a battlefield, and often became his grave. Service in the Russian Imperial Navy was associated with constant hardships and inconveniences. Nevertheless, Russian warships have always been considered the epitome of order, improvement, and even luxury. The crew of the ship was a real section of society: there were their own aristocracy and their own "lower classes", absolutely alien to each other and united only in order to take the fight with the enemy. This book, for the first time in Russian military history literature, describes in detail how Russian sailors arranged their lives on sailboats and battleships, how they were served on many months of voyages and military campaigns, how their life, supplies, food and free time were organized, as in the sea got sick, treated and died. Throwing aside ideological blinkers, the author talks about what life on the ship really was like - from the wardroom to the hold - and also gives a lot of unknown details, curious cases and anecdotes from the everyday life of the old Russian fleet.