Russian/Japanese War: How it is connected to You Killed my Dragon

Russian/Japanese War: How it is connected to You Killed my Dragon

The war which took place between 1904 and 1905 was over imperial dominance of Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. Russia was under the rule of Czar Nicholas Romanov II. It was said that he saw the Japanese in a negative racial light. He ultimately underestimated the Japanese and Russia lost the war.

This event in history relates to book one (You Killed my Dragon) in two ways. Emperor Ramnath Unoroff is the father of Leddy, one of the book's three protagonists. He started a war not over land, but to prove himself and experience glory. Czar Nicholas II wasn't like his predecessors and I like think he went to war partly to prove himself, too. The emperor in You Killed my Dragon saw the scarther in the same negative light the czar saw the Japanese.

The war mentioned throughout the book is what leads to its present oppressive environment. Unlike in You Killed my Dragon, an uprising in 1905 and the First World War propelled tensions. This lead to the Russian Revolution in 1917. 

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