Yes. The Russians sent a fleet of battleships halfway round the world, only to lose badly to the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Tsushima (May, 1905).
Japan.
Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The Imperial Japanese Navy was successful, and the world was shocked because it was the first time that an Asian nation had defeated a European nation. One of the most famous Japanese ships that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the battleship Mikasa, which is preserved today and is permanently docked in Yokosuka, Japan. A famous Russian warship that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the cruiser Aurora, which is also preserved today in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is still commissioned and is the oldest commissioned ship in the Russian Navy.
Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The Imperial Japanese Navy was successful, and the world was shocked because it was the first time that an Asian nation had defeated a European nation. One of the most famous Japanese ships that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the battleship Mikasa, which is preserved today and is permanently docked in Yokosuka, Japan. A famous Russian warship that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the cruiser Aurora, which is also preserved today in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is still commissioned and is the oldest commissioned ship in the Russian Navy.
Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The Imperial Japanese Navy was successful, and the world was shocked because it was the first time that an Asian nation had defeated a European nation. One of the most famous Japanese ships that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the battleship Mikasa, which is preserved today and is permanently docked in Yokosuka, Japan. A famous Russian warship that participated in the Russo-Japanese War was the cruiser Aurora, which is also preserved today in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is still commissioned and is the oldest commissioned ship in the Russian Navy.
It established Japanas a respected military power after they defeated the Russian Navy, and brought Japan into the forefront of military technology. Japan had been feudal and primitive just a few decades before the war.
Example: Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky commanded battleships during the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905.
That sounds like the Russo- Japanese war, where the Japanese navy soundly trashed the bulk of the Russian navy.
The Russian battleship 'Potemkin, is the naval vessel whose crew mutinied on June 14, 1905.
Torpedo boats ultimately sank the battleship Prince Suvorov, flag ship of the Russian Navy at Tsushima in 1905.
That the British were better. Which the British should have known better; as it was they who trained the Japanese Navy; and it was Britain that witnessed the Russian Battleship defeat at Tsushima in 1905, whilst acting as official observers aboard Japanese battleships during the actual sea battle.
Imperial Russian Navy was created in 1696.
Russia was fighting only one nation during that time frame; Japan.