1905 Uprising on the Potemkin

110 years ago, on June 27, 1905, an uprising of sailors began on the battleship Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky, who refused to eat rotten meat borscht. Six officers were killed, including the ship's commander Yevgeny Golikov and senior officer Ippolit Gilyarovsky, as well as the ship's doctor Sergei Smirnov, who declared borscht fit for consumption. Four sailors also died, but only one of them, the leader of the uprising, non-commissioned officer Grigory Vakulenchuk, was killed by Gilyarovsky - the rest died from accidental shots by their comrades. The uprising was led by quartermaster Afanasy Matyushenko. The rebellious battleship came to Odessa, which provoked riots and pogroms in the port, as a result of which more than 100 people died. After the uprising on most of the ships of the fleet failed, the Potemkin surrendered to the Romanian authorities on July 8 in Constanta, his team was interned.