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The Petropavlovsk class, sometimes referred to as the Poltava class, was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s. . They were transferred to the Pacific Squadron shortly after their completion in 1899–1900 and were based at Port Arthur before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–
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They hit Poltava twice on 7 October, though the shells only started fires. [11] On 5 December the Japanese captured 203 Meter Hill, a crucial position that overlooked the harbor and allowed them to direct their artillery at the Russian ships. Poltava was hit that same day by five shells, three of which penetrated the deck. One hit a torpedo ...
Poltava (Полтава) was the second of the Gangut-class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Russian victory over Charles XII of Sweden in the Battle of Poltava in 1709. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was ...
Russian ship of the line Poltava (1820) - 84-gun ship of the line Russian battleship Poltava (1894) - Petropavlovsk -class pre-dreadnought battleship captured by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, sold back to the Russians during World War I, renamed Chesma as there was a new Poltava in the Russian Navy, and ultimately ...
Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava & the Birth of the Russian Empire (2003) Hatton, Ragnhild M. "Charles XII and the Great Northern War." in J.S. Bromley, ed., New Cambridge Modern History VI: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia 1688–1725 (1970) pp 648–80. Lisk, Jill. The struggle for supremacy in the Baltic, 1600–1725 (1968). Lunde ...
Poltava (Russian: Полтава) was a 54-gun ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy that was launched on 15 June [n 1] 1712 from Saint Petersburg.The ship was named after an important for Russia victory over the Swedish Empire in the Battle of Poltava [1] [2] and became the first battleship laid down and built at the St. Petersburg Admiralty.
The action takes place at the time of the Swedish-Russian war of 1709. The King of France, Louis XIV, sends two duelists into exile: Antoine De La Bouche (Valery Malikov) is ordered to go to the camp of the King, Charles XII, of the Swedes and Charles de Brézé (Dmitry Miller) is sent to the camp of the Russian Tsar, Peter the First.