Novaia kniga izvestnogo rossiiskogo pisatelia-marinista kapitana 1-go ranga Vladimira Shigina posviashchena pokhodu russkoi eskadry v Sredizemnoe more v 1827вÐ"â€1830 godakh i oderzhannoi imi pobede pri Navarine, a takzhe boevym deistviiam rossiiskoi armii i Chernomorskogo flota v 1828вÐ"â€1829 godakh na Balkanakh i Kavkaze. Sredi geroev knigi Imperator Nikolai Pervyi, kontr-admiral Geiden i Lazarev, leitenanty Nakhimov, Kornilov, Putiatin. Vpervye v nashei istoricheskoi literature avtor pokazyvaet reshaiushchee znachenie rossiiskogo flota v stanovlenii Gretcii, kak nezavisimogo gosudarstva.