Battleship "Rusalka": Ship. Crew. Fleet. Tragedy. Monument
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In 1902, the sculptor Amandus Adamson (1855-1929) designed a monument in Revel (now Tallinn) to commemorate the 177 sailors who perished on the battleship Rusalka, which disappeared without a trace during a storm in the Gulf of Finland on September 7 (19), 1893. The book shows these two events in a broad cultural, historical and eventual context, without which the wreck and the installation of the monument look like a set of coincidences. Since the ship's design played an important role in the tragedy, special attention is paid to how it came to be part of the Baltic Fleet. Separate chapters are devoted to sailors and the navy as an imperial project initiated by Peter the Great, as well as to the place of Revel and Paldiski on the maritime historical map, as this is necessary to explain why the cenotaph monument appeared at this location and time. The monument itself is treated in the book as an address to contemporaries and descendants, written through various means and techniques. The book attempts to read and understand this address, to reveal the hidden meanings contained in it.
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