Vsevolod Gladilin, - Soviet Ships in Victory against Nazism and Fascism

 

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 perished, but saved hundreds of lives and cargo needed for the battlefront in Russia.



This is the hero ship of World War II, the destroyer Tashkent. She rescued 2,300 wounded and cultural treasures from the Black Sea city of Sevastopol. She repelled an attack by 98 fascist bombers, shooting down six of them.




Cruiser "Aurora." A participant in World War II. The cruiser's anti-aircraft guns fired at fascist aircraft during the Siege of Leningrad. It was also the cruiser that fired the gun salutes that sparked the Soviet October Revolution of 1917.




Me and the "Aurora", as an excellent museum in St. Petersburg.



Cruiser "Maxim Gorky", a participant in World War II. During the Siege of Leningrad, her main guns fired at fascist fortifications and ground troops, and anti-aircraft guns shot down five fascist aircraft.



World War II steam supply locomotive. Series OV.


The World War II IL-2 attack aircraft. The Wehrmacht's primary tank hunter in the military skies.

Ilyushin Il-2 - Photo credit: Anna Zvereva/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0


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The gift that Vsevolod kindly offered me, Peter the Great's boat. (Peter the Great traveled incognito through European shipyards.) One day in 1688, while wandering through one of the royal estates with Franz Timmerman, a Dutch immigrant, the tsar came across an old, supposedly English-style boat stored in a warehouse. The vessel caught his attention because it was different from those used by the Russians at the time, and Timmerman hired fellow Dutchman Karsten Brandt to repair it so that Peter could sail it.[40][note 2] He began to sail almost every day, first on the rivers and then on Lake Plescheyevo, learning to use the sails, the wind, and even the sextant.[43] Peter later ordered more boats to be built, and so Brandt, Timmerman, and other Dutchmen created a small fleet of boats for the tsar on the banks of the Plescheyevo. These men eventually became close friends of his, and the Tsar saw them as great sources of knowledge and a means of reaching out to the West.[44]


in https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_I_da_R%C3%BAssia


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