Interview With GorshinChapter 14
The Russian Naval base at Kronshtadt is on Kotlin Island in the estuary of the river Neva. A short distance away lay Petrograd, the city founded by Peter the Great as his capital. Prior to 1914 it had been named Saint Petersburg, but that was too German sounding. In the nationalist euphoria following the outbreak of war, it was thought it should have a Slavic name. The cruiser Oleg had survived the battle of Tsushima to become modernised into a new class of vessel, a light cruiser. The...