prokofiev offers to take the fight.ardroom supported him, it was decided to accept the fight, and once in such situations you accept the fight, then there is no way to give up, so flag and geus were nailed tightly to the matches , in the hook chamber in the storage room, was abandoned. fire, fire! by the beginning of the crimean war, the russian black sea fleet consisted of only 26 ships. in the summer of 1854, a fleet of the british military coalition, which included about 400 ships, approached sevastopol. this balance of forces forced the russian command to take extreme measures. the russian squadron was sunk in the bay of sevastopol, blocking the path. which menchikov represented, we thought that there would be a protracted war, there would be a siege of sevastopol, but we would withstand this siege, and somehow end this war, if not victory, well, at least we’ll come out of it somehow more nobly, that’s what happened, that is, these ships were sunk, one party started, then a little more, yes, this largely saved sevas