Variag

A second blow was the destruction of the first-class armoured cruiser "Variag," the

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The "Variag" was isolated at Chemulpo, the port of Seoul, doing duty that might have been left to a gunboat.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The "Variag" was destroyed next day, and a few days later the "Yenessei" accidentally blew herself up while laying mines.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

-- Russian steamer Variag, on leaving Vladivostock, struck by a torpedo and sunk; 140 lives lost.

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters 1912

Three days later, the Russian ships, the _Variag_ and the _Korietz_, lay sunken wrecks in Chemulpo Harbour, broken by the guns of the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese soldiers had seized the Korean Emperor's palace.

Korea's Fight for Freedom 1900

Russian ships -- the new cruiser _Variag_, and the gunboat _Korietz_ -- at

Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886

There the Russian protected cruiser Variag (6500 tons) together with the gunboat

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Thus in less than a week the Port Arthur fleet had become reduced in strength by no less than three battleships, five cruisers, and one mining ship, exclusive of the cruiser _Variag_ and the gunboat _Korietz_, destroyed at Chemulpo.

Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886

In the year 862 Slavonic legates went away beyond the sea to the Variag tribe called Rus, and said, 'Our land is great and fruitful, but there is no order in it; come and reign and rule over us. '

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

About eleven o'clock I left the Variag and accompanied Captain Lund, the doctor, and Mr. Anassoff into the boat dancing at the side ladder.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865