The Imperial Russian Navy operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until being dissolved in the wake of the F
Emblem of the Imperial Russian Navy
The original "Flag of the Tsar of Moscow" raised in 1693 by Peter the Great on his yacht Saint Peter
Goto Predestinatsia, flagship of the Azov flotilla until 1711
Russian fleet under the command of Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, sailing through the Bosphorus. By M. M. Ivanov
The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by
Imperial Russian Navy
…The Imperial Russian Navy (Russian: Российский императорский флот) operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until being dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution…
Ivory throne of Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan the Great Bell Tower, raised to the present height during the reign of Boris Godunov
Mounted archers of Muscovy
The Apostle (1564) by Ivan Fyodorov and Pyotr Mstislavets, one of the first Russian printed books