Alexandre Mikhailovitch, La Marine Russe, 1892. Paintings by lieutenant V. Ignatius
Laid down by Galerniy Island Shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia on 23 July 1870, launched on 17 August 1872, commissioned on 14 October 1876, training ship since 1908, depot ship since 1917, decommissioned on 21 May 1921, hulked and renamed Blokshiv Nr. 1 on 4 December 1923, renamed Blokshiv Nr. 4 on 1 January 1932, renamed BSh-3 on 16 May 1949, stricken on 18 April 1959 and broken up. She was designed after a visit of the American monitor USS Miantonomoh at Kronstadt in August 1866 which stimulated rear admiraal Andrei Alexandrovich Popov (21 September 1821-6 March 1898) to design a breastwork monitor between 1867-1869. He is known for his circular ironclads the so-called Popovka’s.
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