author
V. I. (Vladimir Ivanovich) Semenov
1867–1910
A Russian naval officer who turned firsthand wartime experience into vivid prose, he is best known for books drawn from the Russo-Japanese War and the Battle of Tsushima. His writing combines eyewitness detail with the tension of a man who lived through the events himself.
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The Battle of Tsu-shima between the Japanese and Russian fleets, fought on 27th May 1905
by V. I. (Vladimir Ivanovich) Semenov
About the author
Born in Saint Petersburg in 1867, Vladimir Ivanovich Semenov was both a naval officer and a writer. Russian reference pages identify him as a captain of the 1st rank, a participant in the Battle of Tsushima, and a prose author whose work grew directly out of his service at sea.
He is especially remembered for books based on his own diaries and experiences during the Russo-Japanese War. His best-known titles include works translated into English as The Reckoning, The Battle of Tsushima, and The Price of Blood, which helped bring a firsthand Russian perspective on the war to later readers.
Semenov died in 1910. What makes his work stand out is the closeness of the view: he was not writing history from a distance, but shaping lived experience into memoir-like narrative, which gives his books both documentary value and human immediacy.