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Admiral Lazarev (1788–1851) drove many of the reforms that helped mould Russia into the world’s second naval power by the 1830s. An explorer in his early days as an officer, he formed close relationships with officers of the Royal Navy when serving in the Mediterranean, keeping abreast of new developments in ship design and ordnance […]

In late 2016, the Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, CV Kuznetsov embarked upon an operational deployment that would take the vessel and its attendant task group to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea where it subsequently joined the Russian effort to support Syrian Arab Republic government forces in the fight against IS (Islamic State) […]

World’s first submarine minelayer (Krab) In 1914 the Russians were probably the greatest proponents of mine warfare. Much of their fleet had been destroyed in the Russo-Japanese War and the replacements were not yet in service in great numbers. Even then the Russian Baltic fleet could hardly match the German High Seas Fleet. In November […]

A representation of St Petersburg in 1716 by the contemporary architect Marcelius (no first initial available), showing the administrative and logistical hub of the Baltic fleet in its early years. The view is taken from the banks of the Neva looking across towards the centre of the city, with an unidentified warship anchored to the […]