The Eurasian Triangle. Russia, the Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945

34 Ë The Russo-Japanese War arranged to buy “tens of thousands of inexpensive ries in Switzerland.”⁵⁵Eventu- ally sixteen thous ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 35 tion to divert rst to Kemi and Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), on the northern and central coast of Finland ...

36 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.14.Giorgi and Leo Kereselidze, Geneva, 1907. Georgians rolling back the Russians over the mou ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 37 Fig. 2.15.SteamshipSirius, Amsterdam, 1906. and ammunition] cannot be received [in the Caucasus], thi ...

38 Ë The Russo-Japanese War taken place earlier in February 1905, and Shusha was in Nagorno-Karabakh, a land disputed by Armenia ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 39 vised by Dekanozishvili with Akashi. In Tiis, an underground bomb factory was to be built.⁷²(An Ital ...

40 Ë The Russo-Japanese War ended, the government had decided to send an additional ninety thousdand soldiers with artillery uni ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 41 from Tiis, “the weakness and impotence of the [Russian] Government were every- day more manifest. Al ...

42 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.16.SteamshipSiriuslog. formed his governor in the Caucasus on 9 September (22 September) that ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 43 Fig. 2.17.SteamshipSiriustin container of registration documents. new captain, Leendert Groendijk.⁹⁰O ...

44 Ë The Russo-Japanese War was done on the boat, and a new crew hired. Four days later theSiriusleft Marseille, arriving in Nik ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 45 ered, in small consignments, to western Georgia,⁹⁸where, as a leader of the insurgents later recalled ...

46 Ë The Russo-Japanese War revolution but the weakening of the Russian Empire. In this Japan and the Caucasian national movemen ...

Japan and “Total Espionage” Ë 47 activity was limited. Japan had also concluded an alliance with Britain in 1902. From London Ak ...

48 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Dekanozishvili himself died of consumption in France in 1910. He missed Georgia greatly. Before he d ...

Japan and “Total Espionage” Ë 49 Russian police, when the war began in 1904, about ve hundred Japanese spies were operating in ...

50 Ë The Russo-Japanese War In 1906, soon after the war ended, Japan’s consulate reopened in Odesa. Likewise, Japan used Istanbu ...

Japan and “Total Espionage” Ë 51 sia’sOkhranain Paris was spending more than 8,000 French francs a month in 1905,¹³³ while its c ...

52 Ë The Russo-Japanese War about Russia. Natives, much above the rank of the middle class in Japan, as well as coolies and comm ...

3 A Lull The turmoil of the 1905 Revolution did not end quickly or easily in the Russian Empire, the Caucasus included. In April ...