- The word
emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) can mean the male
ruler of an empire. Empress, the
female equivalent, may
indicate an...
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Imperatritsa Mariya (Russian: Императрица Мария:
Empress Maria) was the lead ship of her
class of
three dreadnoughts built for the
Imperial Russian Navy...
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Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya (Russian: Императрица Екатерина Великая (Empress
Catherine the Great)) was the
second of
three Imperatritsa Mariya-class...
- The
Imperatritsa Mariya-class (Russian: Императрица Мария)
battleships were the
first dreadnoughts built for the
Black Sea
Fleet of the
Imperial Russian...
- be outclassed. The ship used the same main
armament as the
preceding Imperatritsa Mariya class, but was
larger and more
heavily armored.
Imperator Nikolai...
- Navy had been
named Imperatritsa Maria,
after either the
first Maria Feodorovna or
second Maria Feodorovna:
Russian ship
Imperatritsa Maria (1827), an 84-gun...
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Catherine II (born
Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17
November 1796), most
commonly known as
Catherine the Great, was the
reigning empress...
-
Revolution earlier that year.
Imperatritsa Mariya was sunk by a
magazine explosion in
Sevastopol harbor in 1916.
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya, having...
-
dropping anchor and
opening fire.
Under Nakhimov's command, the 84-gun ship
Imperatritsa Maria was the
first to
engage when she
fired on the 44-gun
Ottoman flagship...
- superiority. To save time, the ship's
design was
derived from the
previous Imperatritsa Mariya class,
although with
thicker armor. Her
construction was suspended...
