Very little has been written about Admiral Grigory Pavlovich Chukhnin, who was one of the most prominent commanders of the Black Sea Fleet in the 19th century, fulfilling his oath of allegiance to the Tsar and the Fatherland. According to Soviet official history, Admiral Chukhnin was a “tsarist satrap,” an exceptionally stupid and executive leader, an unprincipled careerist. This is wrong! Grigory Pavlovich was a completely different person. The basis of his life was the principles of morality and he saw the meaning of life not in his career, but in serving the Fatherland and the fleet, for the sake of which he spared neither himself nor others. This is what gave him the reputation of a true sailor. It is not for nothing that after the death of the Russian squadron in the Battle of Tsushima, advanced Russian society, answering the question of who could carry out the planned operation with greater success, named only three names: Makarov, Dubasov and Chukhnin. The book describes in detail the military path of the Russian admiral and the tragedy of his murder...