"being... She instilled in me a true sense of the historical revolutionary past"". Due to time constraints and budget problems, only one chapter of ""The Year 1905"" was shot by Eisenstein and his team. Eisenstein chose to focus on the mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin. The filmmaker also diverged greatly from the original screenplay during production, developing the film's now famous Odessa Steps sequence while on set. The film premiered on Dec 1st 1925 as ""The Battleship Potemkin."" Despite this diversion from the screenplay, Agadzhanova was ultimately very enthusiastic about the film, telling Eisenstein in a letter written after"
"battleship and its sailors and the city and its population in revolutionary mood."" The last survivor of the mutiny was Ivan Beshoff, who died on 24 October 1987 at the age of 102 in Dublin. Russian battleship Potemkin The Russian battleship ""Potemkin"" (, ""Prince Potemkin of Taurida"") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905 (during that year's revolution), which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. The mutiny later formed the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's"
"In 1905, there were naval mutinies at Sevastopol (see Sevastopol Uprising), Vladivostok, and Kronstadt, peaking in June with the mutiny aboard the battleship ""Potemkin"". The mutineers eventually surrendered the battleship to Romanian authorities on 8 July in exchange for asylum, then the Romanians returned her to Imperial Russian authorities on the following day. Some sources claim over 2,000 sailors died in the suppression. The mutinies were disorganised and quickly crushed. Despite these mutinies, the armed forces were largely apolitical and remained mostly loyal, if dissatisfied — and were widely used by the government to control the 1905 unrest. Nationalist groups"
"Russian battleship Potemkin The Russian battleship ""Potemkin"" (, ""Prince Potemkin of Taurida"") was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905 (during that year's revolution), which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. The mutiny later formed the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film ""The Battleship Potemkin"". After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She accidentally sank a Russian submarine in 1909"
"the three ""Smeul""-class torpedo boats and the fore-mentioned ""Grivița"". On 2 July 1905, during the mutiny of the Russian battleship ""Potemkin"", the Romanian protected cruiser ""Elisabeta"" engaged the Russian torpedo boat ""Ismail"" as the latter was trying to sneak into the Romanian port of Constanța. ""Elisabeta"" fired two warning shots, first a blank charge then an explosive charge, forcing the torpedo boat to retreat. Later that day, ""Potemkin"" and ""Ismail"" left Romanian waters. During the night of 7 July, however, ""Potemkin"" returned to the Romanian port, this time accepting to surrender to the Romanian authorities in exchange for the latter"
"By , over 2 million workers were on strike and there were almost no active railways in all of Russia. Growing inter-ethnic confrontation throughout the Caucasus resulted in Armenian-Tatar massacres, heavily damaging the cities and the Baku oilfields. With the unsuccessful and bloody Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) there was unrest in army reserve units. On 2 January 1905, Port Arthur was lost; in February 1905, the Russian army was defeated at Mukden, losing almost 80,000 men. On 27–28 May 1905, the Russian Baltic Fleet was defeated at Tsushima. Witte was dispatched to make peace, negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth (signed )."
"themselves in, but ""Potemkin""s crew voted to accept the terms. Captain Negru, commander of the port, came aboard at noon and hoisted the Romanian flag, then he allowed the battleship to enter the inner harbor. Russian torpedo boat Ismail The Russian torpedo boat ""Ismail"" was the first ship in the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet to join the mutiny of the battleship in 1905. The torpedo boat was ""Potemkin""s escort and had on board a complement of three officers, 20 sailors, two 37 mm guns and two torpedo launchers. ""Ismail"" brought rotten meat aboard ""Potemkin"" in June 1905, an incident"
"and 5 gunboats), based in Port Arthur. Other ships of the ""Siberian Military Flotilla"" (4 cruisers, 10 torpedo boats) were stationed in Vladivostok. During the Russo-Japanese War, most of the Russian Navy in the Pacific was destroyed. The Russian Baltic Fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, renamed the Second Pacific Squadron, was defeated at the Battle of Tsushima. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the sailors of the Pacific Fleet were actively engaged in the revolutionary movement, participating in armed revolts in Vladivostok in January 1906 and October 1907. During the October Revolution of 1917, the sailors of the Siberian and"
"fires at the port. On June 13, 1905, Cossacks shot several striking workers. The next day, large groups of workers stopped working and attacked police with rocks and guns. The battleship ""Potemkin"", whose crew had mutinied on June 14, arrived in Odessa that evening. Thousands of Odessans went to the port to see the battleship and support the mutinous sailors. During the afternoon of 15 June, the unruly crowd began to raid warehouses and set fire to wooden buildings in the harbor. Chaos ensued when, in order to prevent further unrest, the military blocked off the harbor and fired into"
"Siege of Port Arthur The Siege of Port Arthur (, ""Ryojun Kōisen""; , ""Oborona Port-Artura"", August 1, 1904 – January 2, 1905), the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria, was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Port Arthur had been widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world. However, during the First Sino-Japanese War, General Nogi Maresuke had taken the city from the forces of Qing China in only a few days. The ease of his victory during the previous conflict,"
"with the cruiser ""Ochakov"" in its center. On November 26, 1905 a mutiny began the cruiser, and its officers were expelled from the ship. Lieutenant Commander Schmidt, though not being a member of RSDRP, was invited to take command of the rebel ships, including the minelayer ""Griden"", gunboat ""Usuriets"", destroyers ""Zavetniy"", ""Zorkiy"", ""Svirepiy"", ""265"", ""268"", ""270"", training ship ""Dnestr"" and mine carrier ""Bug"". The same day, the Soviets of Sailors' and Soldiers' Deputies decided to start a Black Sea Fleet-wide mutiny and appoint Schmidt as Commander of the Fleet. On November 28, Pyotr Schmidt arrived on board the cruiser ""Ochakov"","
"mining the Bosporus, thus preventing the Ottoman Fleet from entering the Black Sea. After the revolution forced Russia to quit the war, the Baltic Fleet was evacuated from Helsinki and Tallinn to Kronshtadt during the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet and many of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet found their last refuge in Bizerte. For the most part, Russian sailors welcomed the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which they participated. Earlier, in 1905, sailors of the Imperial Russian battleship ""Potemkin"" in the Black Sea Navy revolted. In 1906 rebellious soldiers gained control of some Helsinki coastal fortifications"
"1905 soon after the Navy's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. Lenin wrote that the ""Potemkin"" uprising had had a huge importance in terms of being the first attempt at creating the nucleus of a revolutionary army. During World War I, there were a number of encounters between the Russian and Ottoman navies in the Black Sea. The Ottomans initially had the advantage due to their having under their command the German battlecruiser , but after the two modern Russian dreadnoughts and had been built in Mykolaiv, the Russians took command of the sea until the Russian government collapsed in November"
"the marine guards to shoot but they dispersed into the chaos on deck. Matushenko and two other sailors shot down Giliarovsky and another officer. Giliarovsky's last words were ""I know you, you scoundrel. You may escape from the ship now, but I'll find you."" He was tossed overboard by the sailors. Giliarovsky's body was found at sea by the marine transport ""Gonets"" in August 1905. Seven of the eighteen officers on the Potemkin were killed during the brief violence of the actual mutiny. These included Giliarovsky, Captain Golikov and Doctor Smirnov. Two sailors were also killed. The surviving officers were"
"to control Manchuria, Russian strategy focused on fighting delaying actions to gain time for reinforcements to arrive via the long Trans-Siberian railway. In January 1905, after several unsuccessful attacks which cost them 60,000 troops killed and wounded and an eight-month siege, the Japanese captured Port Arthur. In March, the Japanese forced the Russians to withdraw north of Mukden, but were unable to pursue the Russians because Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties. Because strategically the possession of the city meant little, the final victory was dependent on the navy. In May, at the Tsushima Straits, the Japanese destroyed Russia's last hope"
"of the War. The capture of Port Arthur and the subsequent Japanese victories at the Battle of Mukden and Tsushima gave Japan a dominant military position, resulting in favorable arbitration by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the war. The loss of the war in 1905 led to major political unrest in Imperial Russia (see: Russian revolution of 1905). Siege of Port Arthur The Siege of Port Arthur (, ""Ryojun Kōisen""; , ""Oborona Port-Artura"", August 1, 1904 – January 2, 1905), the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula"
"which was the construction site of the concrete gravity base structures LUN-A and PA-B for the development of the Sakhalin Island offshore oil fields. Another division of Vostochny port is the Special Sea Oil Terminal which is located in Kozmino Bay, with cargo throughput almost 15 million tonnes. Vostochny Port Vostochny Port () is an intermodal container port at the eastern end of the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is the largest port in the Russian Far East. It is located in Vrangel (an eastern suburb of Nakhodka), Primorsky Krai. A deepwater port on Nakhodka Bay (part of the Sea of Japan),"
"beginning of a six-month hiatus (May–October 1905) caused by the 1905 Russian Revolution. It became the last of its kind for a whole generation of naval bureaucracy: none of the admirals present ever laid down or launched another ship. Dubasov became the Governor-General of Moscow, and de facto retired after an assassination attempt in April 1906. Admiral Kuzmich, the newly appointed Chief of the Port of Saint Petersburg, was killed by terrorists in May 1906. General Admiral Grand Duke Alexey, Chief of the Ministry of the Navy Fyodor Avelan and Chief Inspector of the NTC Nikolay Kuteinikov, blamed for the"
"1922. In the 20th century the town and its fortress became more famous when the fortress was used as one of the prisons for the mutinous crew of the battleship ""Potëmkin"", whose actions in the failed 1905 Revolution were a precursor to the eventual 1917 revolution. The statue of one of the mutineers erected in the Soviet era still decorates Heydar Aliyev park not far from the fortress. Currently, the fortress still houses a military garrison as well as several Soviet-style apartment buildings. Near the northern part of the ramparts and off of the main square is a beautiful, but"
"Russian torpedo boat Ismail The Russian torpedo boat ""Ismail"" was the first ship in the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet to join the mutiny of the battleship in 1905. The torpedo boat was ""Potemkin""s escort and had on board a complement of three officers, 20 sailors, two 37 mm guns and two torpedo launchers. ""Ismail"" brought rotten meat aboard ""Potemkin"" in June 1905, an incident which sparked the mutiny. The commander of ""Ismail"" was Lieutenant Pyotr Klodt von Yurgensburg, a 41-year-old Russian nobleman. ""Ismail"" had a top speed of 25 knots and was 127 feet long and 11 feet wide."
"major naval base by the Russian Imperial Army. Since it needed to control the sea in order to fight a war on the Asian mainland, Japan's first military objective was to neutralize the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. On the night of 8 February 1904, the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō opened the war with a surprise torpedo boat destroyer attack on the Russian ships at Port Arthur. The attack heavily damaged the ""Tsesarevich"" and ""Retvizan"", the heaviest battleships in Russia's far Eastern theater, and the 6,600 ton cruiser ""Pallada"". These attacks developed into the Battle of Port Arthur"
"fleet with primarily raw recruits and less capable officers. With the news of the disastrous Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 morale dropped to an all-time low, and any minor incident could be enough to spark a major catastrophe. Taking advantage of the situation, plus the disruption caused by the ongoing riots and uprisings, the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Organisation of the Black Sea Fleet, called ""Tsentralka"", had started preparations for a simultaneous mutiny on all of the ships of the fleet, although the timing had not been decided. On 27 June 1905, ""Potemkin"" was at gunnery practice"
"to be changed. Trains remain at crossing points for up to 2 hours. Russia's major sea ports include St Petersburg and Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast; Murmansk and Arkhangelsk on the Arctic coast; Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Pacific coast; Sochi, Novorossiysk, and Sevastopol on the Black Sea coast; Astrakhan on the Caspian coast. In European Russia, many river boat companies offer journeys to cities and towns on the Volga River, its tributaries and connected canals: Moscow (via the Moscow Canal), Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Saratov, Volgograd, Astrakhan. River boats from St Petersburg can travel to Staraya Ladoga"
"During the mutiny of ""Potemkin"" on 14 June 1905 (according to the Western Calendar; 27 June 1905 according to the Julian Calendar), officers from the battleship swam for safety towards ""Ismail"". Yurgensburg hesitated for 20 minutes before deciding to flee the scene, but ""Ismail"" was prevented from doing so when its mooring line became caught in the anchor. When the signalman informed Yurgensburg that his ship was being fired upon with rifles by sailors from ""Potemkin"", he ignored a call to surrender but was eventually halted by three shots from ""Potemkin""s guns, the last damaging the ""Ismail""s funnel. Yurgensburg then"
"on the city. The Vladivostok Cruiser Group participated in the war, blocking approaches to besieged Port-Arthur. Vladivostok was involved in the Revolution of 1905, and was governed by rebel military units in early 1906. Unrest in the city was quelled with force and diplomacy by General Georgi Kazbek. During the period between the two Russian revolutions (1907–1917) a 17th-century-style railway station, a power station, two girls' schools, a school of commerce, and the Versailles Hotel were built, and trams began operating. In 1909 the port was visited by 795 steamships, including 477 foreign ships, and there were about 3,000 shops"
"to the naval Battle of the Yellow Sea which solidified Japan's command of the sea, where her fleets continued to blockade the harbor. Virtually all the battles of the war until July 1904 were strategic battles for territorial gain or position leading to the investment and siege of the port city. The port eventually fell 2 January 1905 after a long train of battles on land and sea during which the Japanese occupied the whole of the Korean Peninsula, split the Russian Army, devastated the Russian Fleet, and cut off the source of supplies on the railway from Harbin, culminating"
"5–8 July, finally sinking on 10 July 1924. Russian battleship Oryol Oryol () was a built for the Russian Imperial Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was completed a few months before the start of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904 and was assigned to the Second Pacific Squadron sent to the Far East six months later to break the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur. The Japanese captured the port while the squadron was in transit and their destination was changed to Vladivostok. ""Oryol"" was badly damaged during the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905"
"went into action, 22 were sunk, six were captured, six were interned in neutral ports and only three escaped to the safety of Vladivostok. Tsushima broke Russian naval dominance in East Asia, and is said to have been a contributing factor in subsequent uprisings in the Russian Navy (1905 uprisings in Vladivostok and the battleship ""Potemkin"" uprising), contributing to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Post war investigations were held of Russian naval leaders during those battles in which Tōgō had prevailed, seeking the reasons behind their utter defeat. The Russian commander of the destroyed Baltic fleet, Admiral Zinovy Rozhdestvenski (who"
"The ship's design was finally approved on 12 June 1897, although design changes continued to be made that slowed the ship's construction. Construction of ""Potemkin"" began on 27 December 1897 and she was laid down at the Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard on 10 October 1898. She was named in honour of Prince Grigory Potemkin, a Russian soldier and statesman. The ship was launched on 9 October 1900 and transferred to Sevastopol for fitting out on 4 July 1902. She began sea trials in September 1903 and these continued, off and on, until early 1905 when her gun turrets were completed. ""Potemkin"""
"Vostochny Port Vostochny Port () is an intermodal container port at the eastern end of the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is the largest port in the Russian Far East. It is located in Vrangel (an eastern suburb of Nakhodka), Primorsky Krai. A deepwater port on Nakhodka Bay (part of the Sea of Japan), it operates year-round and is suitable for handling large tonnage ships. Vostochny is a warm-water port in the Russian Far East. The largest stevedoring firm in the port is JSC Vostochny Port, which specializes in coal handling with conveyor equipment. Vostochny Port also consists of VostCo Dry Dock,"
"the Russian fleet, one ship after another. On December 5, 1904, the battleship ""Poltava"" was destroyed, followed by the battleship ""Retvizan"" on December 7, 1904, the battleships ""Pobeda"" and ""Peresvet"" and the cruisers ""Pallada"" and ""Bayan"" on December 9, 1904. The battleship ""Sevastopol"", although hit five times by shells, managed to move out of range of the guns. On the night of January 2, 1905, after Port Arthur surrendered, Captain Nikolai Essen of the ""Sevastopol"" had the crippled battleship scuttled in of water by opening the sea cocks on one side, so that the ship would sink on its side"
"bulk ships and large combat ships. Admiralty Shipyard The Admiralty Shipyard () (""formerly Soviet Shipyard No. 194"") is one of the oldest and largest shipyards in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg. The shipyard's building ways can accommodate ships of up to , in length and in width. Military products include naval warships such as nuclear and diesel-powered submarines and large auxiliaries. The shipyard was founded as the Galley Yard by Peter the Great during the Great Northern War on 5 November 1704 and located in the open ground along the Neva River behind the Admiralty building. It was administered by"
"Battleship Potemkin "" Battleship Potemkin"" was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. In 2012, the British Film Institute named it the eleventh greatest film of all time. The film is set in June 1905; the protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the ""Potemkin"", a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. Eisenstein divided the plot into five acts, each with its own title: The scene begins with two sailors, Matyushenko and Vakulinchuk, discussing the need for the crew of the ""Potemkin"" to support the revolution"