online books

[Mobeer]

From the Library of Congress:

Russian-Japanese Relations in the Far East
http://memory.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/rj_mod.html

The Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese war, by Captain N. Klado, of the Imperial Russian navy, professor at the Naval and Military academies of St. Petersburg. Translated, with Captain Klado's consent, from the French text of M. René Marchand, by L. J. H. Dickinson.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/mtfront:@field(NUMBER+@od1(mtfgc+0006))

Rasplata, (The reckoning) by Commander Wladimir Semenoff. His diary during the blockade of Port Arthur and the voyage of Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet, tr. by L. A. B.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/mtfront:@field(NUMBER+@od1(mtfgc+0009))

[mbv]

Great finds, particularly the 501 page diary which looks like it has some very interesting accounts. Thanks for the links :thumup:

[Bullethead]

Damn, Mobeer, you find a bunch of good info out there. Hehehe, looks like the RJW ain't so absolutely obscure after all :D

[Mish]

RASPLATA is written by Vladimir Semenov - who was the officer on cruiser Diana during the Port-Arthur compaign. After the battle in Yellow Sea, when Diana escaped to Saigon, Semenov returnd to Russia and joined Rozhestvensky's fleet as a flag-officer on battleship Kniaz Suvorov. He was lucky to survive the Tsushima battle and was resqued from wrecked Suvorov (as well as some other officers and admiral Rozhestvensky) by destroyer Buiny after 5PM.
Semenov gives a quite exciting story of what had happend to battleship Suvorov during the Tsushima battle