In the Japanese War

Vikentiy Vikentievich Veresaev is a remarkable prose writer, journalist, and poet-translator. He is called the artist-historian of the Russian intelligentsia. What is particularly valuable in the writer's work is the deep truthfulness in the depiction of society, as well as the love for all those who are rebelliously seeking solutions to social and moral questions. As a military doctor, Veresaev participated in the Russo-Japanese War, the events of which he vividly and clearly portrayed in his notes "In the Japanese War." According to Maxim Gorky, these tragic pages of our history found in Veresaev a truly "sober, honest witness."