The yacht dinghy-St. Peter (1693g) 1:75
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"St. Peter" - the sea imperial yacht of the young Russian tsar Peter I, this ship was the first to raise the Russian ship's standard and he became the first Russian warship to carry the Russian flag in foreign waters, now this flag is stored in the Central Naval Museum of Saint- Petersburg Built in 1693 by Dutch ship masters Peter Bass and Gerbant Jansen in the city of Arkhangelsk, the only port in Russia at that time. The decorations were made by the master Franz Jansen, interior pairs of the yacht painted by the painter Athanasius Truhmenskaya and his son. The arms consisted of one mast, 2 straight and 3 oblique sails and twelve 3-pound guns. There were suspended swords (balancers) on the sides for stability in the turbulent sea. Scale model 1: 75