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Pavel Levitsky
Pavel Pavlovich Levitsky (russian: Павел Павлович Левицкий) was a Russian Vice Admiral of the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Civil War. He was known for commanding the ''Russian cruiser Zhemchug, Zhemchug'' during the Battle of Tsushima. Biography Levitsky was born on 30 October 1859 in Reval, the son of the commander of the steam frigate ''Russian frigate Smelyy (1859), Smelyy'' Pavel Pavlovich Levitsky and Nadezhda Efimovna (née Kholostova), daughter of a merchant of the first guild from Reval. In 1880, he graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps (Russia), Naval Cadet Corps, was appointed michman in 1881, and graduated from his naval mine classes in 1884. under the guidance of Alexander Stepanovich Popov. Levitsky received his first command on 23 April 1885, as he headed the ''Russian destroyer Plotva, Plotva'' and from 1896 to 1898 was the senior mine officer of the ''Russian cruiser Vladimir Monomakh, Vladimir Monomakh''. He then became the senior office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reval
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last "pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
