December 28, 1908, early in the morning at the bottom of A series of earthquakes occurred in the Strait of Messina, after which three tsunami waves hit the Italian city of Messina.

This earthquake was the largest in the history of Europe. More than 200,000 people died. The ships of the Baltic Fleet "Tsesarevich", "Slava", "Admiral Makarov" and "Bogatyr" were the first…

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