Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — RUSSIAN OFFICERS WHO LOST SHIPS DECORATED FOR HEROISM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUSSIAN OFFICERS WHO LOST SHIPS DECORATED FOR HEROISM

Russian naval custom requires a strict accounting from an officer who loses a ship. Two officers, CapL Belayeff of the Korietz, and CapL Rudiueff of the Variag, faced a board of inquiry, but such were the accounts of their heroism in the face of overwhelming odds that CapL Rudineff was made aid-de-camp to the Czar and given the St. George’s cross, while Capt. Belayeff was also decorated. Capt Stefanoff went down with his vessel, the torpedo depot ship Yenesei, which was blown up by a mine of its own planting.