26 Cited by Beskrovnyi, Armii iflot, pp. 223-4.
27 On this plan and the covering memo sent to the Duma to justify it, see 'U nashikh protivnikov shirokie plany', Voenno-istoricheskii Zhurnal (1996), no. 4: 42-50.
complained that their navy and trade were confined to the Mediterranean and at the mercy of the British fleet, which dominated the Mediterranean Sea and controlled all exits from it to the open oceans? Moreover the arrests of revolutionary sailors in 1912 were a reminder that the Russian state was spending great sums on a weapon which might turn on its creator.