[Dmitry Markov]

Gentlemen, who cares for the gold? Best outcome of this finding isthat they’ve found a memorable ship whose crew fought their last battle as a lions - performing quite well against a hoplessly outnumbering enemies. Donskoy’s crew managed to sneak through Japanese cruisers and destroyers on a severely damaged ship after all! They even damaged Naniwa and Otawa. Were the Donskoy’s machines able to produce any speed, the ship could survive. They weren’t however. Anyway, of all 1-rate ships of 2-nd Pacific Squadron she approached closest to Vladivostok.
The only possible mentioning of the gold I could welcome concerning this story - unfortunate reality is that without the rumors of gold barely someone would start an expedition to a 1905 Russian cruiser or other glorious ships fallen at Tsusima.