Mikhail Petrovich Vasilyev

Mikhail Petrovich Vasiliev ( Russian Михаил Петрович Васильев ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Petrovich Vasil'ev * October 17 ^{. Jul} / 29. October 1857 ^greg. In Piotrkow Trybunalski , Congress Poland , † March 31 ^jul. / 13. April 1904 ^greg. fallen off Port Arthur ) was an officer in the Russian Navy .

In 1899 he became the commander of the first Russian icebreaker Yermak . With this ship he sailed the waters around Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya . In the Russo-Japanese War he was in command of the Petropavlovsk liner . The flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet under Admiral Makarow ran on April 13, 1904 in the Bay of Port Arthur on a Japanese anchorage mine and sank within a few minutes. Along with most of the crew and the famous painter Vasily Vasilyevich Vereschtschagin , Vasilyev was also killed when the ship went down.

literature

Vladimir Dmitrijew and others: Morskoi enziklopeditscheski slowar: Tom 1 . Sudostrojenije, Leningrad 1991, pp. 204-205. ISBN 5-7355-0280-8 (Russian)

personal data
SURNAME	Vasilyev, Mikhail Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Васильев, Михаил Петрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian naval officer, commander of the first Russian icebreaker
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Piotrków Trybunalski , Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1904
Place of death	before Port Arthur