Central museum of the Navy

The central Musée of the Navy of Saint-Pétersbourg is the oldest museum of the world devoted to the navy. It was created in 1805 starting from the collections of Pierre Ier of Russia and the Admiralty of Saint-Pétersbourg which started to be made up in 1729. After the Revolution of 1917, the museum increases by receiving the collections of the museums of the Fleet of guard and the Body of the juniors by the Navy. In the years 1920 and 1930, a great number of its parts related to the family Romanov were destroyed but of the elements of quality were however safeguarded.

It is also currently one of the largest museums of navy. Since 1940, it is located on the point of the Vassilievski island, in the old Stock Market which was built between 1805 and 1810 according to the project of the French architect Jean-François Thomas de Thomon.

The permanent exposure of the museum restores the history of national navigation and the Russian navy of war, since the oldest times until the current hour. It occupies 10 rooms where one discovers:

more than 1850 model reduced of warships,
a thousand of weapons,
of paintings, in particular of Ivan Konstantinovitch Aivazovsky (1817-1900) and of Alexei Petrovitch Bogolioubov (1824-1896),
of the war flags, medals, decorations and badges Russian,
of the objects of the daily life of the sailors,
as well as the boat called the " grandfather of the Navy russe" on which Pierre Ier learned art from navigation.

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Saint-Pétersbourg with the Frenchwoman
central Museum of the Navy of Saint-Pétersbourg

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