Vsevolod Gladilin I May I was in Russia, where I'd never been before, to participate in the Victory Day celebrations against Nazism and Fascism. The USSR played a decisive role in this. Having also been in Moscow, I sought out our partner in this hobby of making ships in bottles, Vsevolod Gladilin. Although brief, our meeting was very cordial, and Vsevolod brought two of his most recent works to show me, which can be seen in the first two photographs below. He also gave me a bottle containing the boat that Peter the Great is said to have brought from the Netherlands, when he worked incognito in shipyards there. The last ships Vsevolod made from bottles participated in World War II and played a very active role in the fight against Nazism and Fascism. This is the reason for this post! This is the hero ship of the Arctic convoys during World War II, Izhora, 1942. She saved two Arctic convoys from the fascist battleship Tirpitz with a radiogram that proved fatal. The ship and crew p...