Central Naval Museum of St. Petersburg (Russia)

[Huc Bernard]

It's a beautiful museum. We intended to visit it 3 years ago. Unfortunately, since the INVASION of the Ukraine by Russia, it's been out of the question...
Bernard

 

[richie incident]

Russia did not close itself off from anyone. You can safely come and visit the museum. We need less politics because there is a lot of false propaganda in it. This doesn’t stop me from building models of French ships (also published by ANCRE).

 

[pugwash]

Thank you for taking the trouble to photograph these models, (and sharing them), especially including identifier captions, so we know what we're looking at.

 

[richie incident]

Screw frigate "Светлана" 1858 ("Svetlana" - woman's name)
The ship began construction at the French shipyard Kredit Maritaime & Arscan seven months after the end of the Eastern War of 1853-1856, where France and Russia were enemies. (at the same time, in the same place, they began to build a yacht for the Russian emperor)
This is instructive for these days, before hate and “cancel culture.” Respect and peace must exist no matter what.
(This is Huc Bernard's answer. I apologize for the offtopic)

 

[richie incident]

53 gun Screw frigate "Громобой" 1857 (Gromoboy - Thunderbreaker)

 

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clipper vessel "Забияка" 1878 (Zabiyaka - hothead)

 

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Yacht "Славянка" (Slavianka) 1876

 

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Transport "Свирь" (Svir / river Svir )

 

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Yacht "Царевна" (Tsarevna / Princess)

 

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Yacht "Штандарт" (shtandard) 1858

 

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Protected cruiser "Адмирал Корнилов" 1887 (Admiral Korhilov)
The model was made in France, where the ship itself was built at the St. Nazaire, France

 

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84-gun ship "Ретвизан" 1855 ("Retvizan"- "Justice", original svensk name - "Rättvisan")

 

[Uwek]

a wonderful model - especially the rigging is highly interesting and very realistic
Many Thanks for sharing