About the book: 2015 / The book of the famous marine painter captain 1st rank Vladimir Shigin is dedicated to the personality of Admiral F. Dubasov, which today tells the reader little. His name was slandered by historians who saw him as the executioner of Krasnaya Presnya. In fact, Admiral Dubasov is one of the outstanding naval figures in Russian history. He received his St. George Cross for his fearless attack on a Turkish battleship on the Danube. It was he who first raised the St. Andrew's flag in Port Arthur. It was he who ensured the campaign of the 2nd Pacific Squadron of Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky to the Far East in 1905, brilliantly outplaying the British in the so-called Gul incident. It was he who restored state order and legality in revolutionary Moscow in December 1905, for which he was subjected to two assassination attempts. And finally, it was he who was the first to appreciate the strategic importance of Murmansk and the future naval base of the Northern Fleet Polar.