“God grant that this difficult and shameful story is more likely to end”

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On June 27, 1905, 110 years ago, in the midst of the First Russian Revolution, a rebellion broke out on the battleship “Prince Potemkin of Tauride”. This was the first serious uprising in the armed forces of the Russian Empire during the revolution. The team captured the ship and led the ship to Odessa to support the anti-government protests in the city and to raise uprising throughout the Black Sea navybut it didn’t work out. The command failed to suppress the rebellion with the help of other ships, they refused to shoot at the Potemkin. Then the ship went to the shores of Romania and surrendered in Constanta to the local authorities. Soon, the Romanian authorities returned the battleship of Russia, and the sailors remained abroad. Some sailors who returned to Russia were arrested and convicted.

Insurrection

The outbreak of the revolution and the unpopular war with Japan made the internal situation in Russia explosive. A wave of revolutionary terror swept across the country. Many sailors of the Black Sea Fleet, after a series of defeats, including the Tsushima catastrophe, feared that the Black Sea Fleet’s ships would send the Pacific Ocean (3-I Pacific Squadron).

The situation in Odessa was tense. In the spring, a “general strike” lasted for more than a month in the city, covering all of Odessa’s enterprises and workshops. The strike paralyzed city life. In Odessa, to strengthen the police introduced the Cossacks. The Jewish community of the city, which constituted almost half of the population of Odessa, frightened by rumors of pogroms, created self-defense units armed with firearms. weapons. In June, workers began armed clashes with police and Cossacks in many places. Provocateurs shot Cossacks and policemen from the windows of the upper floors, they threw bombs. There were killed and wounded. And at this moment the team of the new battleship "Prince Potyomkin-Tavricheskiy" revolted (it came into operation in May 1905).

The psychological situation on the ship was negative. Conditions of service were harsh. The command staff mocked the sailors. It was especially hard for the sailors during their training voyage to the Tendrovsky spit. Before the uprising, dozens of sailors petitioned for cancellation, and a few dozen sailors who were considered unreliable were written off by the ship's commander. It should be noted that the crew "Potemkin", compared with some other ships, was not considered "revolutionary."

12 (25) June 1905, the battleship Potemkin, escorted by the destroyer No. 267, left Sevastopol and arrived the next morning to the Tendrovsky spit, which is located approximately xNUMX nautical miles from Odessa. It was an educational way out. 100 (13) June 26 year battleship commander captain 1905 rank Yevgeny Nikolaevich Golikov sent a destroyer to Odessa to get food. Many shops were closed because of the strike, so they bought what they found. The meat was apparently not fresh. It should be remembered that under the conditions of life in the fleet and the absence of refrigeration chambers, meat with worms at that time was not uncommon and always did without conflicts.

14 (27) June 1905, half of the meat in the morning was used to cook borscht, the remaining carcasses hung for "airing." The sailors felt the smell of spoiled meat and refused to eat borsch. This was reported to the captain. The commander ordered the general assembly to be played and set off for the construction site on such an occasion - on the ship's quarters. The crew of the ship was built on the right and left side. The commander of the ship ordered the senior doctor Smirnov to write a second examination. The doctor recognized the soup as good.

The captain was angry and threatened the sailors with punishment for rebellion. He ordered all those who would eat borscht to move to the 12-inch tower. Those who did not want to conflict, including the group of the most conscious sailors with the Bolsheviks and their leader Grigory Vakulenchuk, failed and said that they agreed to eat borscht. They believed that the rebellion is premature, it must be started on the entire fleet at the same time, and a little later. Following this, they agree to eat borscht and the rest of the crew. The incident seems to be settled.

However, someone needed to be punished. Senior officer I. I. Gilyarovsky ordered the guard to detain the rest. This caused a new indignation of the sailors. The team considered that they wanted to shoot a group of 30 people and stood up for their comrades. There was a cry among the sailors: “Brothers, what are they doing with our comrades? Take rifles and ammunition! Beat them, boors! It’s enough to be slaves! ”Sailors shouting“ Hurray! ”Rushed into the battery room, breaking open pyramids with rifles and boxes of ammunition. A real insurrection began. Part of the team and the officers did not participate in this, taking a passive position and trying to escape.

During the confrontation, particularly hated officers, including captain Golikov, who did not manage to jump overboard, and Gilyarovsky, were killed. The surviving officers were arrested. Under the threat of shelling, a destroyer was captured. By one o'clock everything was completed.

The insurgents were led by quartermaster mine chief Afanasy Matyushenko (Vakulenchuk was mortally wounded during a short bout). What to do next, the sailors did not know, because the rebellion was spontaneous. Since the arrival of the entire fleet was expected at Tendra, the rebels needed to leave immediately. We decided to go to Odessa, where it was possible to replenish stocks. In addition, the team knew that there was excitement in the city. The commander of the ship was chosen ensign D. P. Alekseev. At the same time, the commander and navigator were told that if they ran aground, they would be killed. Alekseev did not sympathize with the rebels, but he did not have the strength of mind to resist them.

Battleship Potemkin and destroyer № 267 arrived to Odessa in the evening. The leaders of the uprising held a meeting. It was decided to associate with representatives of the Odessa Social Democrats, to solve the problem of fuel and provisions, solemnly bury Vakulenchuk. Then the Potemkin team seized transport Emerans loaded with coal and held a meeting with the local Social Democrats. The ship's commission called on the garrison and the townspeople to support the uprising.

By order of the commander of the Odessa Military District, troops blocked the port. In the port itself, the troops were ordered not to enter, as there was a threat of shelling the city. Odessa Social Democrats have proposed landing troops to intensify the uprising in Odessa. However, the ship's commission refused, saving forces in case of a collision with the Black Sea Fleet. The port vessel "Milestone", which had just arrived in Odessa and did not know about the rebellion, was captured by the rebellious sailors. The officers were arrested, but then released into the city.

28-29 June in the port there was a pogrom. The criminal and marginal elements took advantage of the anarchy and began to loot, break the barrels of vodka and wine. The fires began. In the evening, the troops opened fire on those who wanted to leave the port. According to the official data of the then authorities, 123 people were killed and injured during the unrest in the port (in Soviet times, the numbers were clearly exaggerated in the 1200-1500 of the dead). Odessa port suffered heavy losses.

The events on the Black Sea have caused confusion among the authorities. The mutiny of the battleship Potemkin resembled the beginning of a civil war. This flash could cause a continuous revolutionary wave, confusion. Emperor Nicholas II wrote in his diary: “I received a stunning news from Odessa that the team of the battleship Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky who had come there rebelled, interrupted the officers and seized the ship, threatening unrest in the city. I just can’t believe it! ”The king sent a telegram to the commander of the Odessa Military District:“ Take immediately the most brutal, decisive measures to suppress the uprising both on Potemkin and among the port population. Every hour of delay can turn into blood streams in the future. ” Cabinet Minister Sergei Witte called the incident "fabulous." Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich wrote in his diary: “The horrors, the incredible news from Odessa. This is a complete revolution! ”The Odessa authorities were in complete confusion and prostration.

However, the authorities were afraid of nothing. The rebels had no far-reaching goals. The uprising was spontaneous and did not pose a threat. Most of the team itself was afraid of the consequences of their actions and did not want to aggravate the situation.

29 June Odessa was declared on martial law. On this day, the rebels released all the remaining officers of the ship, leaving only Alekseeva. Two more officers, Lieutenant A. M. Kovalenko and Second Lieutenant P. V. Kolyuzhnov, remained on the rebellious battleship voluntarily. The non-commissioned officers were released and forced to perform their duties under compulsion. During negotiations with the command of the Odessa Military District, an agreement was reached on the funeral of Vakulenchuk. After the funeral, the battleship suddenly gave three single shots in memory of Vakulenchuk and two shots with military shells around the city. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

June 30 held a "silent fight". Battleship Potemkin twice passed through the Black Sea squadron, the ships dispersed without opening fire. At the same time, the battleship of the George the Victorious battleship joined the rebellious battleship. Both rebel battleships came to Odessa. At the St. George the Victorious, the officers were not killed, but landed. The government squadron, due to the unreliability of the squadron teams, returned to the main fleet base in Sevastopol. In Sevastopol, opened a conspiracy on the battleship "Catherine II". The crew was written off, the ringleaders were arrested. In general, the situation in the Black Sea Fleet was difficult. The personnel was demoralized, the ships lost their combat capability. For the destroyers, who were to sink the battleship, recruited crews of volunteer officers. England even offered to enter their ships in the Black Sea and sink rebellious battleship.

Meanwhile, the crew of “George” changed his mind and surrendered to the authorities of Odessa. On the "Potemkin" panic began. Some demanded to follow the example of the “George the Victorious” team, others - to open fire on the “traitor”, but the majority were for flight. In the evening, the battleship Potemkin, accompanied by the destroyer No. 267 and the port vessel Vekha, left the Odessa raid. The team decided to follow to Romania. At night, Milestone fell behind the battleship and surrendered.

In the evening of July 2, Potemkin, hoping to replenish the running out of food and fuel, arrived at the Romanian port of Constanza. On July 3, the Romanian authorities offered the rebels to surrender on the terms of military deserters, which freed them from being extradited to Russia and guaranteed personal freedom. The Romanians refused to provide fuel and food. Then the rebels decided to return to Russia.

During the week, "Potemkin" plowing the Black Sea, causing distemper. He once again terrifies in Feodosia, and then, when coal ends, goes to Romania. The rebels reported that they accept the conditions proposed by the Romanian authorities, 3 July 1905 of the year. 8 July ship surrendered. The sailors became emigrants. Destroyer team number 267, freed from the supervision of the battleship, returned to Sevastopol. Already July 9 Romania returned the Potemkin to Russia. After the uprising, the battleship was renamed Panteleimon.

As a result, a spontaneous rebellion on one of the Black Sea Fleet ships, albeit the most powerful, shook the whole empire and dropped its international prestige. The naval command showed complete incompetence. It was not for nothing that Emperor Nicholas II, who was watching the fruitless attempts to find and neutralize a rebellious ship, left in his diary of 6 July 1905, the following entry: “God grant that this heavy and shameful story rather ended. "


Battleship Potemkin. Landing team in the port of Constanta
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  1. +5
    29 June 2015 06: 34
    Bringing people to a boil is very easy, but then calm down and reduce the situation to nothing ...
    1. +4
      29 June 2015 12: 41
      Soldier, sailor must endure all the hardships and deprivations of military service. And if there was absolutely nothing to eat. They would sell the ship for a hawk.
    2. +3
      29 June 2015 15: 58
      Quote: strelets
      Bringing people to a boil is very easy, but then calm down and reduce the situation to nothing ...

      Yes, yes, today I watched through the box, as in Armenia, the newly-minted horses dance, brought the poor by an increase of 74 kopecks.
      1. 0
        29 June 2015 21: 52
        Quote: Lyton
        brought the poor an increase of 74 cents.

        So you won’t dance, they’ll sit on your neck. These Russian people are surprisingly patient. They will endure a dollar of 60 and 100 .... Although patience ended in 1917 ...
        There in Khimki didn’t give a damn about the opinion of the residents during the construction of the highway through the forest, so the people came and defeated the administration, and then retreated in an organized way)
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    4. +3
      29 June 2015 20: 15
      It’s impossible to establish now who is right and who is wrong ... But if the sailors opposed the authorities, then there must have been a reason for this ... And it doesn’t matter if it was bad meat, or the officers were the causeless scuffle of the sailors, now it doesn’t matter anymore ... IMHO!
      1. 0
        2 July 2015 09: 32
        The reason was "BAD MEAT" .... But the reasons ... !!! "Not everything is SO SAME" (AS "CLASSIC" used to say)
    5. -2
      30 June 2015 18: 13
      Well, that’s what professional revolutionaries were doing ...

      "inhuman conditions" on the new battleship which "brought the team" on a march just beyond the port raid ... bully

      Then they calmed down the people for 20 years by executions, until Stalin himself shot these red-bellied Kabbalists.
  2. +3
    29 June 2015 06: 47
    I always wanted to know, what for a rare stick in Potemkin sticks in his nose? winked
    1. 0
      29 June 2015 09: 59
      to aim with a ram was more convenient
      then the ram was considered almost the main weapon of the battleship
    2. +1
      10 December 2017 16: 53
      This is not a stick, but a shot. Same on the sides. Anti-torpedo nets tied to them while the ship was stationary. And the stick ... they throw the women.
  3. +4
    29 June 2015 07: 46
    The incident seems to be over. However, someone had to be punished...And away we go ...
  4. +10
    29 June 2015 07: 54
    In general, it is a shame for the commander to allow riot on the ship. This means no one knew about the mood in the cockpits, no educational work was conducted. The officers did not care.
    1. +16
      29 June 2015 09: 03
      Quote: andrian
      In general, it is a shame for the commander to allow riot on the ship. This means no one knew about the mood in the cockpits, no educational work was conducted. The officers did not care.

      Yes, in general, until 1917, all the tsarist authorities did not care about the people. They were doing well, they were getting fat and trying to feed the people "good borscht". So the February Revolution happened in the end. And then nothing changed in essence - so Oktyabrskaya happened.
      1. +5
        29 June 2015 12: 20
        You're not right! For soldiers from 1847 until the 17th, the magazine "Soldier Reading" was published. Ask about its content. You will be surprised how many useful, educational articles there are. To read it to the soldiers and to explain it was ordered not to the non-commissioned officers, but to the gentlemen's officers! But ... as always on the ground, everything went down on the brakes. That is, the trouble with Russia is that it lived according to concepts, and not according to the law!
      2. -2
        29 June 2015 13: 13
        Of course, only after 17 years the power fell in love with its people. Especially Soviet loved - really, to tears))
        The tsarist regime was too kind, it was necessary to hang up mercilessly and chop heads off, as Peter did. Soft-skinned talkers about .. if Russia again.
        1. +1
          29 June 2015 18: 15
          Correctly. And serfdom did not have to be canceled! Strengthen the Cooking Children Act! And to tear, to tear everyone and everything, especially if the hats in front of the gentleman quickly do not learn! You yourself from the Lord go, and blows your nobility, as from the toilet.
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          2. -1
            30 June 2015 08: 22
            serfdom did not need to be abolished

            Serfdom fully met the spirit and requirements of its time. Of course, it was necessary to cancel it as it had outlived its own.
            Cook Act to Strengthen
            Leaving as is is a good thing. Education is a great value, and you need to have a good filter to access it.
            And to tear, to tear everyone and everything, especially if the hats in front of the master quickly do not learn

            For the case, you can tear - tea is not sugar)).
            It blows with your nobility, as from a toilet.

            Not from the masters - from the peasants, our dung is everything - that's why it carries)
        2. +2
          30 June 2015 09: 02
          Quote: Heimdall48
          The tsarist regime was too kind, it was necessary to hang up mercilessly and chop heads off, as Peter did. Soft-skinned talkers

          Imperial power is good ?! Soft-bodied ?! And so there was Bolotnikov, Razin, Pugachev, 1905, and then 1917 ?! Therefore, rafts with gallows floated along the Volga on which peasants who spoke on the side of Yemelyan Pugachev dangled? For centuries, tsarist rule did not consider its own people, on whose neck it was sitting, to be people, it’s not necessary to be the overseer of your own people. For those who consider the Stalinist and Soviet past of Russia to be evil, for those who idealize tsars, nobles, nobility - everything happened thanks to them.
          1. 0
            30 June 2015 09: 29
            Imperial power is good ?!

            We are talking about the time period mentioned in the article. If this battleship was destroyed along with the entire crew (including officers), then probably many of the country's problems would be solved in the shortest possible time.

            Bolotnikov, Razin and Pugachev - bloodsuckers and bandits. The analogy is Raduev, Basaev and others. If Vladimir Ilyich and Joseph Vissarionovich were lowered in due time on a raft on the gallows, then the situation would be different in the country. )))

            For centuries, tsarist power did not consider its people, on whose neck they were sitting,

            Tsarist power for centuries created Russia without snot and sentiment. In fact, the Tsar and the Church - this is Russia. Therefore, such nonsense about the dark past is disgusting stupidity. I do not know other than Tsarist Russia, and I love her with all the shortcomings. Can you know another Russia? If anything, then the USSR is not Russia even once, but a zoo that has not stood the minimum test of time. On the scale of history, it is not visible at all.
            1. 0
              30 June 2015 22: 28
              Quote: Heimdall48
              This is a time period referred to in the article.

              That's right, but if we are talking about kings and their power, then the Romanovs alone ruled for 300 years, their attitude towards their people was not much different regardless of who ruled.
              Quote: Heimdall48
              Bolotnikov, Razin and Pugachev - bloodsuckers and bandits.
              And do you also write down tens and hundreds of thousands of peasants following them in gallows? Why didn’t you attribute Yermak here to the same roots and the ataman did the same, or making a gift to the tsar with a piece that you yourself couldn’t chew and which gave indulgence in your eyes and is no longer a robber? I do not detract from his merits to Russia, simply if you have blinders in front of your eyes and do not force them to wear others.
              Quote: Heimdall48
              Tsarist power for centuries created Russia without snot and sentiment. In fact, the Tsar and the Church - this is Russia.
              Russia is the Russian people, the kings and the church and their people crushed under themselves, and Russia was created for themselves and there were snot, only bloody.
              Quote: Heimdall48
              Can you know another Russia?
              I don’t know another Russia, I know it the way it really is and the USSR is Russia which had a chance to build a just society for its citizens, but after Stalin the party nomenclature began to degenerate and degrade and eventually led to the collapse of the Union. I do not want to say that everything in Russia has always been bad, most of what happened in our country is what I am proud of, but I would be the last to be proud of the tsars and the monarchy, if I would do it at all. And this is yours
              Quote: Heimdall48
              Serfdom fully met the spirit and requirements of its time.

              Can this be somehow answered? Are you out of your mind?
              1. 0
                1 July 2015 09: 22
                the Romanovs alone ruled for 300 years, their attitude towards their people was not much different regardless of who ruled.

                Are you really calling Peter the Great, who was tearing people as sticky, with Alexander the Second? Or Nicholas the First and the Second? I do not believe there is common sense.
                And do you also write down tens and hundreds of thousands of peasants following them in gallows?

                These people violated the law of that time and the established order. Plus it was wartime.
                If in the Great Patriotic War the city of Orenburg had rebelled against any Soviet power, do you know what you would have done to it?
                Under Khrushchev, people shot at a rally in Novocherkassk — are they also gallows?
                And what about Ermak? - Yermak embarked on the path of correction. Forged, so to speak, and redeemed with blood. If Razin had given up stealing and laid his head against Poland, then there would be no complaints against him.
                Russia is the Russian people, the kings and the church and their people crushed under themselves, and Russia was created for themselves and there were snot, only bloody.

                Which we have already created - we don’t know another, and so far no one has done better.
                The USSR is a social project that has not passed the test and turned out to be completely worthless. Crying around him is inappropriate. It is appropriate to cry over the millions of people whom this project has destroyed.
                Can this be somehow answered? Are you out of your mind?

                Let me remind you of the root of the question. At that time, the armed forces of the Moscow kingdom consisted of local noble cavalry. The main means of production was land. There was no proletariat then, you see, and Karl Marx was not with capital? In order to acquire horses and weapons, keep it all nobleman allocated land. The nobleman himself was supposed to be engaged in purely military training and, at the call of the Tsar, to go to war completely combat-ready with his assistants - combat serfs.
                Since the nobleman could not, for the reasons stated above, plow the land to him, peasants who were engaged in production stood out.
                That was the real picture - the separation of duties. Therefore, in order to ensure stable production and, therefore, a stable state of the state’s armed forces, it was necessary to enslave the peasants on the ground so that they would not run back and forth. The time was hard, inhumane, and the nobles had a very bad time - they were punished severely for their failure to appear.
                Is that what seems illogical to you here? Still - then there were no antibiotics, trade unions, missiles, higher education and the healthcare system. And it is not Ivan the Terrible with Fyodor Mikhailovich that is to blame. It was just reality.
                So I'm in my mind, and you would have to learn a story
                1. 0
                  1 July 2015 15: 17
                  ... with Fedor Mikhailovich

                  I apologize - Alexei Mikhailovich)
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      4. +5
        29 June 2015 14: 22
        In general, until 1917, all the tsarist authorities did not care about the people. They were doing well, they got fat and tried to feed the people "good borscht".
        From 1907 to in 1914 in Russia the rapid growth of the economy and all the prerequisites to become the most prosperous country in the world. Salaries of workers, the level of freedom is higher than European, etc. By royal decree of 1907, the export of crude oil and round timber without processing was banned! The patriotic rise in 1914 was off scale. The hardest war, the betrayal of the allies, the 5th convoy led Russia in 1917, which stood on the verge of Germany inflicting strategic defeat and ending the war with victory, to the February and October coups. As a result, 1mv lasted for another year, Russia was mired in a suicidal civil war, and for the hundred years it has not been able to overcome the consequences of this war
    2. +2
      29 June 2015 10: 00
      then there were few officers on the ship - a dozen and a half
      in the cockpits, the non-commissioners had to conduct work
      1. +4
        29 June 2015 11: 50
        The officers themselves were not a single caste. Even this article gives evidence - ensigns, second lieutenants, lieutenants - all this "for the Admiralty" - navigator and mechanics. Land titles and the same contempt and rejection from the "naval" officers. It was eliminated by Grigorovich a little later, even before WWI.
    3. +3
      29 June 2015 23: 14
      Quote: andrian
      educational work was not conducted

      Educational work was carried out at the level of sermons. This is if the priest was conscientious. In general, the sense of educational work is if you are not fed and beaten
    4. 0
      2 July 2015 09: 34
      At that time, it was not the duty of the officers ...
  5. +9
    29 June 2015 08: 08
    The article is empty, just a statement of events without listing the true instigators and goals. Particularly pleased with the idea of ​​offering help impudent Saxons in the sinking of the Russian battleship.
    1. avt
      +11
      29 June 2015 09: 45
      Quote: Terner38
      The article is empty, just a statement of events without listing the true instigators and goals.

      Yeah - retelling of Eisenstein's film, the story with meat was especially touched. But if you dig around? Then the story described by Pikul on the events in the Baltic will probably come out, well, when, after the military exit, instead of pasta, shrapnel was issued. In this case, the Bolsheviks took advantage of the lack of compote and muddied the mutiny. Before the uprising, dozens of sailors filed a petition to write off several dozen sailors, who were considered unreliable, were written off by the commander of the ship. It should be noted that the crew of the Potemkin, in comparison with some other ships, was not considered "revolutionary." wassat And what then, in the opinion of the author, the revolutionary crew "??? Which on the upper deck does not give the officers a pass - beats the muzzle ??? laughing
      1. +5
        29 June 2015 11: 30
        Quote: avt
        Then the story described by Pikul on the events in the Baltic will probably come out, well, when, after the military exit, instead of pasta, "shrapnel" was issued. In this case, the Bolsheviks took advantage of the lack of compote and muddied the mutiny.

        Compotes and borscht are only a catalyst for people's discontent. The true causes of the uprising are the oppressed position of the sailors - arrogance, rudeness and assault of officers.
        1. +7
          29 June 2015 13: 43
          Quote: Grenader
          The true causes of the uprising are the oppressed position of the sailors - arrogance, rudeness and assault of officers.

          Yuri, how would you comment on the uprising on the "Watchdog" in 1975, which by the way was headed by the political commander of the ship Cap3 Sablin ??? Can you call this incident the "oppression of the sailors"?
        2. +5
          29 June 2015 18: 22
          In 1993, in the Ostrov-2 garrison, the cook spent the whole night in the office of the storage base commander doing something with the duty officer in the morning. I didn’t have time to cook pea porridge in the morning. When I arrived in the morning to build the company, the eyes of the offended and hungry sailors were like on an armadillo. found the strength and duty to apologize to the personnel. They were accepted.
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  6. ZIS
    +12
    29 June 2015 08: 56
    This uprising looks like a riot of fucking "gods" ... "The sailors had a particularly hard time during their training voyage to the Tendrovskaya Spit." Did they paddle there? And the winter transitions of ships of the Northern Fleet to Mediterranean and the Atlantic in conditions of 8-9 ball storms, is this a reason for a riot? All this verbal slapstick about the transition, the meat and atrocities of the officers are designed to disguise the unwillingness to fulfill their duty, cowardice and betrayal during the war.
    1. +13
      29 June 2015 09: 50
      From the report of the head of the Tauride Provincial Gendarme Administration, Theodosius, June 25

      ... During the transfer of provisions to the battleship from the boat, a sailor from Kabarda fled, who, during interrogation, showed that there were 750 crew members on the Potemkin, including up to 400 recruits who did not at all sympathize with the revolutionary movement that had swept the battleship, that all were led by two who sat down in Odessa, unknown civilians, of whom one, judging by the cap, is a student, and that on the battleship there are only 67 people, imbued with the spirit of rebellion, the most resolute and desperate people, who hold the entire crew in their hands; that the commander of the Potemkin Golikov and the senior officer Neupokoev were killed by the sailor Matyushenko, six more officers were killed ... On board there are: reserve warrant officer Alekseev, who commanded the battleship under duress, and two mechanics, while the senior boatswain is in charge of the commanding unit; that there are about 10000 poods of coal left on the battleship, water is mined with a desalination plant, there is no food and the team has been eating breadcrumbs for 4 days already, drinking, its depressed state of mind and disagreement in orders and lack of performance are visible on everything: people are afraid to let go of the boat so they don't run away, dynamo -the machines do not work, which is why 12-inch guns cannot shoot, the battleship is not cleaned and the team is tired and upset ...
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    3. +5
      29 June 2015 10: 01
      so the main reason in the article is also indicated, but briefly: the teams were afraid that they would be sent to the Pacific Ocean to fight with the Japanese
    4. +2
      29 June 2015 14: 29
      All this verbal shellup about the transition, the meat and atrocities of officers are designed to mask the unwillingness to fulfill duty, cowardice and betrayal during the war.
      The article is clearly copied from the BIG SOVIET Encyclopedia laughing
    5. +1
      29 June 2015 18: 25
      The duty of officers is to provide food for the personnel, and it’s good to do so. And never reproach for their type of snickering, and what will be like in a war. To eat worms is not the duty of subordinates. This is even worse than hazing.
  7. +12
    29 June 2015 09: 08
    In general, I believe that any rebellion and rebellion in the armed forces is a betrayal of the motherland in the square. They are trained by this Motherland, armed to defend the Fatherland and the state system, they are not peasants with slings in a salt riot. It is a great responsibility to be armed. No matter what power - the rebellion does not lead to anything good, the result is a civil war. An example is the revolution itself, the first and second, the overthrow of the CPSU and the Soviet Union sawed the scoundrels in the Bialowieza Forest and Ukraine - these are what the revolutions lead to. And if the military, called to protect the people, take part in it, this crime is not before the authorities, but before the people and the Fatherland.
    Although of course there are plenty of examples in history, from the Praetorian guard, to the guards of Imperial Russia.
    Quote: andrian
    In general, it is a shame for the commander to allow riot on the ship. This means no one knew about the mood in the cockpits, no educational work was conducted. The officers did not care.

    Well, let's say in the 90s it was the same. When he was in service, he often traveled to guards of ammunition escort teams in different parts of the North Caucasus Military District, believe me, though not in all, but in some parts he watched as the officers were afraid of their personnel ...
    1. +2
      29 June 2015 14: 31
      In general, I believe that any rebellion and rebellion in the armed forces is a betrayal of the motherland in the square.
      In wartime, in the cube!
  8. +5
    29 June 2015 09: 19
    Given that civilian workers were on the box, the riot was predetermined. Although Potemkin was commissioned, he was at the stage of testing and adjusting mechanisms. And the mention of the absence of a refrigerator is alarming in the article, he is simply obliged to be there. In general, the story of the riot is still not fully covered.
    1. +3
      29 June 2015 09: 59
      Given that there were civilian workers on the box



      Sevastopol Gendarme Office - to the Police Department, July 4, 1905

      Among the ten sailors of the Potemkin brought from Feodosia was the Jew Konstantin Izrailev Feldman, who had boarded a battleship in Odessa. Was one of the main leaders ...
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    3. 0
      30 June 2015 17: 10
      Quote: Nehist
      . And the article mentions the absence of a refrigerator, it is simply obliged to be there.


      Well, as if there were refrigerators ... By steam engines. Where without them.

      But with household strain was, yes. Therefore, the products deteriorated instantly.
  9. +14
    29 June 2015 09: 44
    The article is helpless and unhistorical. Not a single word is said about the provocateurs who provoked this senseless rebellion. One of them with an intelligent beard was even immortalized in a memorial plaque in Feodosia. And so it stands behind the backs of sailors in a jammed visor. The surname is non-Russian, did not appear on the crew lists.
    1. +2
      29 June 2015 17: 11
      Quote: Gomunkul
      Among the ten sailors of the Potemkin brought from Feodosia was the Jew Konstantin Izrailev Feldman, who had boarded a battleship in Odessa. Was one of the main leaders ...


      And here is the name of the fourth "hero". Thank you, Homunculus. Only Feldman was not a sailor. In the report, I see a clear stylistic error, which has grown into a semantic error. The Jew Feldman, who landed on the battleship in Odessa, was taken to Sevastopol with ten sailors of the Potemkin from Feodosia (where the whole company was arrested by the police while trying to get hold of coal) well, he could not have been a sailor and a member of the battleship's crew.
      And on the monument he is depicted so that it is not visible that he is not in shape. Well, the fact that the author of the monument jammed a cap on his head is like a symbol of the introduction of the revolutionary to the fleet. Such an allegory.
      1. 0
        29 June 2015 18: 28
        Excuse me, but "Jew" is a position, specialty, or just whose ignorance?
        1. +2
          29 June 2015 19: 00
          Quote: Dema46
          Excuse me, but "Jew" is a position, specialty, or just whose ignorance?

          In this case, all together.
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          1 July 2015 01: 05
          "Jew" is a state of mind.
  10. +6
    29 June 2015 11: 08
    Interestingly, the borscht was eventually eaten up or so hungry and rebelled laughing
  11. +6
    29 June 2015 11: 32
    A year and a half ago, I read a book by a modern historian-sailor about the Potemkin and the cruiser Ochakov, now I don't remember his name, so I cannot refer. So he paints in detail both riots, causes, course and consequences. So here is one fact from the book. The Bolshevik Vakulenchuk, who opposed the riot on the Potemkin, was killed not from an officer's revolver, but from a RIFLE.
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      1 July 2015 01: 08
      Very muddy story.
  12. +4
    29 June 2015 12: 07
    Quote: iury.vorgul
    A year and a half ago, I read a book by a modern historian-sailor about the Potemkin and the cruiser Ochakov, now I don't remember his name, so I cannot refer. So he paints in detail both riots, causes, course and consequences.

    Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Shigin "False Heroes of the Russian Navy." Shigin has many interesting books about the fleet.
  13. +2
    29 June 2015 12: 43
    Dear! It does not remind you of Armenia. There is borscht, there are prices for light!
  14. -5
    29 June 2015 17: 27
    The first pancake, as they say - is lumpy. But the second attempt, strongly rang the lord's people.
    1. +1
      29 June 2015 20: 14
      And not only the master’s ..!
      1. 0
        29 June 2015 22: 29
        Those. if there were no regime change, would we live better?
        History itself has shown that the tsarist regime has outlived itself. And it is not a fact that there would be such an effective industrialization as in the 30s and again not a fact that we were able to withstand and break the ridge of Hitler hordes.
        1. ZIS
          0
          1 July 2015 01: 15
          But the fact that there would be no devastation! And catch-up by the year 1913 ... Throughout the Soviet era were measured!
          1. 0
            1 July 2015 15: 27
            You want to say that there was a revolution in vain? Was the Soviet state in vain?
            The first revolution showed the disunity of the Russian opposition and was the result of failures in the east of the country, including the difficult situation inside the country.
  15. +3
    29 June 2015 20: 33
    Quote: ZIS
    This uprising looks like a riot of fucking "gods" ... "The sailors had a particularly hard time during their training voyage to the Tendrovskaya Spit." Did they paddle there? And the winter transitions of ships of the Northern Fleet to Mediterranean and the Atlantic in conditions of 8-9 ball storms, is this a reason for a riot? All this verbal slapstick about the transition, the meat and atrocities of the officers are designed to disguise the unwillingness to fulfill their duty, cowardice and betrayal during the war.

    The main reason lies in the words: "during the war"!!! There were rumors that the 3rd Pacific Squadron would be created on the basis of the Black Sea Fleet. To be sent to the Far East. That is why they rebelled because they did not want to go to war. The rest is the fairy tales of the Vienna woods.
    1. 0
      30 June 2015 20: 07
      Well, yes, if you don’t want to be cannon fodder in an imperialist war, you don’t want to die at the age of 20 for the mercenary interests of a handful of snickering degenerates, then you are a coward and a scoundrel. Or do you think that the sending of the third Pacific squadron could radically change the course of the war in the Russo-Japanese war. And so the version is interesting - it turns out that the "traitors" from the "Potemkin" by their performance saved the Black Sea Fleet from destruction, thwarted the dispatch of its best ships to the senseless slaughter in the Pacific Ocean.
      1. 0
        30 June 2015 20: 13
        the main reason that during the war all the same made a revolution as in 1917
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    29 June 2015 21: 16
    “God grant that this difficult and shameful story is more likely to end”

    How old is the author? Does he know the history of naval art?
  17. +3
    29 June 2015 23: 08
    Father Tsar was very disappointed. The sailors did not want to die for him, and the wormy soup did not want to eat!
    all of a sudden she got hoarse and had some thoughts !?
    Here, all authors komenty felt from the nobles almost. Workers and sailors are now gone.
    Everyone imagines themselves a white bone!
    Oh well!
  18. -1
    30 June 2015 02: 28
    "heavy and shameful FromToria ended sooner"? A good proposal, which means you need to study the way of life of the Russian World OUTSIDE this book, outside the Tanakh.

    Understand and study the world around us outside the Judeo-impudent-Saxon interpretation.

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