26.01.2009
On January 24, 2009, at 12:00, the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the creation of the Central Naval Museum at the Petropavlovskiy fortress witnessed an official ceremony involving the firing of artillery guns.
The firing was performed personally by Andrei Yakovlevich Lyalyn, the acting director of the Central Naval Museum. The empty artillery shells were sent for conservation to the fond of the museum. The official ceremony was accompanied by a performance of the clarion music of the Petropavlovskaya fortress.
The 24th January 2009 marks the 300th anniversary of the Central Naval Museum, one of the oldest naval museums in the world.
The museum first appeared in the form of a room full of ship models, and was first mentioned by Peter the Great in 1709. It housed some 2,000 models. Many of them were exact replicas of actual ships and were masterpieces of decorative arts. The pride of the museum was the famous boat Piotr I, the “grandfather of the Russian Navy,” a submarine built in 1881.
The museum houses famous works by I. K. Aivazovskiy (the biggest collection of works in Russia), A.P. Bogolubov, A.K. Beggrov, K.P. Brullov and other Russian painters and sculptures by M.M. Antokolskiy, P.C. Klodt, M.O. Mickeshin, N.S. Pimenov as well as those of the foreign painters K. Porter, L. Karavakk, F. Perro,F. Hakkert, N. Condi and other.
The museum has four branches: on the cruiser
Avrora, the class D-2 sub
Narodovolets (boat in Saint-Petersburg), the Kronshtadtskaya fortress (in Kronshtadt), and the
Doroga Zhizni (on the banks of the Lake Ladoga in the village of Osinoviets in the Leningrad Region).
Translation:
RusNavy.com
