Twelve Apostles / Двенадцать Апостолов
The model is currently on sale by the family of the master after his death. / Модель продает семья автора после его смерти. Price / Цена: 27,000 USD / 1,600,000 RUB (local pickup in Ulyanovsk, Russia) Please contact: d.inbox@outlook.com Russian three-master ship of the line 'Twelve Apostles' ('XII Apostles') of the Black Sea Navy of Russian empire / Стендовая модель: Российский парусный трехмачтовый линейный корабль I ранга "Двенадцать Апостолов" ("XII Апостолов", "12 Апостолов") Черноморского флота Российской империи Brief history: The ship was launched by Nikolaevsk shipyard (Russia) in 1841. The captain was vice-admiral Vladimir Kornilov. Twelve Apostles took an active part in Crimean War in Sevastopol. She was sunk to occlude the Sevastopol Harbour in 1855. After the unsuccessful attempt of weighing up the ship was exploded in 1861. Twelve Apostles was depicted on eight paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky, the greatest Russian master
