Stepan Makarov

Russisk admiral. Dræbt da hans flagskib Petropavlosk ramte en mine og sank ved Port Arthur.

• Port Arthur II, 1904-05

born Dec. 27, 1848 , [Jan. 8, 1849, New Style], Nikolayev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Mykolayiv, Ukraine]
died March 31 [April 13], 1904 , at sea off Port Arthur, Manchuria [now Lü-shun, China]

Russian naval commander in charge of the Pacific fleet at the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

The son of an ensign, Makarov graduated from the Maritime Academy in 1865 and was commissioned an ensign in the Russian navy in 1869. He became…