Cadets. How It Really Was

The loud success of Nina Sorotkina's novel about cadets and its subsequent adaptation introduced Russian readers and movie lovers to friends from the Navigation School, but few can say what in the plot of these works is true and what is fiction. What did the cadets' uniform actually look like and what subjects did they study in naval school?
These and many other questions are answered in the new book by the famous historian of the Russian Navy K. B. Nazarenko.