About the book: 2015 / The book by the famous writer-marinist Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Shigin presents literary and documentary essays about the life and exploits of Russian sailors of the Baltic Fleet of the XVIII–XX centuries. Among them, the hero of Chesma and the Krasnogorsk battle with the Swedish fleet in 1790, Admiral Cruz. Commander of the heroic tender "Experience", which withstood a multi-hour battle with an English frigate in 1808, Lieutenant Commander Nevelskoy. The head of the first, never completed, round-the-world expedition of the Russian fleet and a participant in many battles of the Russian-Swedish war of 1788–1790, captain 1st rank Mulovsky, and the most successful submariner in the history of the Russian fleet, captain 1st rank Grishchenko.