Note by Madame Politovsky
These were the last pages which were sent from Shanghai, and received by me (his wife) in the month of June.
During the battle Engineer E. S. Politovsky was below, as the battleship Kniaz Suvaroff had had a hole made in her, and he was probably giving instructions for its repair. The flag-captain saw him last in the sick-bay. “How are things going?” asked Politovsky. “Very badly,” answered the flag-captain. Soon after this some of the staff left the battleship in the torpedo-boat Biedovy. Those who were below were not called. There was no need of them. They saved the “valuable” life of Admiral Rojdestvensky.