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JOLLY-BOAT of PETER I
Pereslav-Zalessky
The Pleshcheyevo Lake near Pereslavl-Zalessky is considered to be the birthplace of the Russian Navy. In 1688 young Tsar Peter visited the Pleshcheyevo Lake for the first time. The lake enchanted the Tsar and on his return to Moscow he told his mother Natalya Kirillovna about his impressions and prayed to let him go to Pereslavl for building the fleet and the court. In August 1688 Peter arrived in Pereslavl-Zalessky and settled in the Nikitsky and later in the Goritsky Monastery. Peter himself went deep into all details of work. But state affairs distracted Peter from his favourite job. On November 29,1691, he arrived to Pereslavl-Zalessky once again and developed a large-scale project. On May 1, 1692, Peter completed rigging the large vessel and launched it together with other boats. About a hundred big and small boats were built by summer 1692. General Patrick Garden recruited the crews, mainly from local youths. August 1,1692, was marked with launching of all the boats of the fleet. The Pleshcheyevo Lake was to be a research laboratory of sorts of the Russian Navy. "Taking care of the remains of vessels, yachts and galleys is incumbent on you; if you neglect your duty, your descendants and not you alone will answer for your carelessness", said the edict issued in Pereslavl on February 7, 1722 and signed by Peter I. That first in Russia document on the preservation of monuments of the past was prompted by a complete destruction of his beloved creation which the Tsar occasionally saw on his way from Moscow to Vologda.
Pereslavl voivodes ardently rushed to execute the royal order. All encircled brief measures completed by winter 1722. The terror of voivodes died together with Tsar Peter I. Remains of the Pereslavl toy navy, neglected by local authorities, burnt down in 1783. в he Russian naval history was re-created in the early 19th century when the Governor of Vladimir, poet and historian Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgoruky, built a stone mansion for the Peter Museum on the place where the fleet originated, on money donated and collected by people of the Pereslavl Uyezd. The Museum was ceremonially inaugurated on August 1, 1803. Nowadays there are rare exhibits of the Peter's toy fleet in the Museum.. The Museum can also boast rare pictures, engravings, portraits and sculpture from the 18th century. A monument to Peter the Great was unveiled on August 17, 1852, in front of the Museum. On 1918 the "Jolly-Boat" Estate was proclaimed a State Monument of History. Thc^ exposition under the title of "The Pleshcheyevo Lake as the Cradle of the Russian Navy" opened on July 29,1984.
Литература в "Русском переплете"
Наука и культура в "Русском переплете"
