Nikolai Essen

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Nikolai Ottovich Essen (Russian: Николай Оттович Эссен) (December 11(23), 1860, Petersburg - May 7(20), 1915, Tallinn) was a Russian naval commander and admiral of German ethnicity. He was commander of the Russian squadron at the Battle off Ulsan in the Russo-Japanese war. After this conflict he was the first Captain of the British built armoured cruiser Rurik. He was promoted to Commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet in 1908 and he led energetically during the first year of World War I. He died of natural causes (a lung Infection).

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Paul G. Halpern, A Naval history of World War I, 1994, UCL Press - ISBN 1 -85728 498-4