Legend Of The Fort. Tuletorn Films Ltd

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Legend Of The Fort

Aleksandr Naven

Estonia

NAVAL FORTRESS OF EMPEROR PETER THE GREAT

The Naval Fortress of Emperor Peter the Great a largest Naval fortress in the world — a complex of coastal and land defensive structures for the protection of the coast and water area of the Baltic Sea, which belonged to the Russian Empire, which was planned and built during 1907-1918. The decision to start construction of the naval fortress line came after the disastrous events of Russian-Japanese war at Tsushima where the almost whole Russian Baltic Fleet had been annihilated. The capital Saint Petersburg was then unprotected. The fastest and cheapest way of dealing with this problem was to protect Saint Petersburg with a seemingly impenetrable zone of coastal artillery fortifications and land fortification until a new fleet had been constructed.

Radio interview on ESTONIAN RADIO 4, 16 June, 2023

Interview with film director Aleksandr Naven about documentary film “Legend Of The Fort” (In Russian) Click on the image to listen interview.

HISTORICAL PHOTOS RELATED TO EVENTS IN NAVAL FORTRESS OF EMPEROR PETER THE GREAT

Armored cruiser Rurik of the Russian Imperial Navy at the Revel Raid

Officers of the Moonsund fortified position

Officers of the Moonsund fortified position of the Sea Fortress of Emperor Peter the Great. 1917 Second from the right, in the first row, is the commander of the most powerful battery on Cape Tserel N43 — Senior Lieutenant Bartenev. The 305mm guns of which confronted the German units during the capture of the Gulf of Riga and Operation Albion. He became the prototype of the hero of Pikul’s novel “Moonsund” by Lieutenant Artenyev and the Eponymous Soviet film “Moonsund” in which he was played by Oleg Menshikov.

Officers of the Moonsund fortified position of the Sea Fortress of Emperor Peter the Great. 1917

Second from the right, in the first row, is the commander of the most powerful battery on Cape Tserel N43 — Senior Lieutenant Bartenev. The 305mm guns of which confronted the German units during the capture of the Gulf of Riga and Operation Albion.

Lieutenant Bartenev stands in the background

305mm battery on Cape Tserel N43, Moonsund

Still from the movie “Moonsund”

Operation Albion 1917. German soldiers clear the naval barriers.

Another outstanding personality associated with the Navy, Noblessner Shipyard and the Naval Fortress of Emperor Peter the Great — Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov.

He was born on January 6, 1872 in Nizhny Novgorod, in a merchant family. At the age of 15, after graduating from a real school, he came to Kronstadt, passed the entrance exams and entered the Technical School of the Maritime Department. He graduated with honors, and at the age of 19, being the youngest of the graduates of 1891, he became a ship engineer.

From 1912-1917 Consultant at the Noblessner U-boat yard in Reval. A little bit of what he was working on: The Sevastopol-class battleships were a series of Russian battleships, the first dreadnoughts of the Russian Navy. The project was developed by the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, under the leadership of Professor of the Maritime Academy I. G. Bubnov in 1907. At the Baltic Shipyard in 1911-1912, Bubnov supervised the design of battlecruisers of the Izmail and Svetlana types, by the way, the cruiser Svetlana was built in Reval in 1913-1915. In the spring of 1912, Bubnov left the Service at the Baltic Shipyard and became a consultant at the shipyard of the joint-stock company Noblessner in Reval, which received an order to build 12 submarines of the Bars type. At the same time, he continued to work on promising boat projects and in March 1914 presented a project of a submarine with a boiler-turbine power source.

He developed a super-dreadnought-Battleship engineer Bubnov comparable in power to the Japanese Yamato of the Second World War. It was distinguished by detailed study, powerful artillery, increased speed and an acceptable level of armor Revolutionary events stopped the design of Bubnov’s super-powerful battleships with 406-mm artillery. He developed a super-dreadnought-Battleship engineer Bubnov comparable in power to the Japanese Yamato of the Second World War. It was distinguished by detailed study, powerful artillery, increased speed and an acceptable level of armor. Revolutionary events stopped the design of Bubnov’s super-powerful battleships with 406-mm artillery.

Currently, there is not a single ship and warship in the world that has not been built thanks to him. Theoretical developments and individual principles of mathematical analysis of this brilliant Russian nugget formed the basis of complex computer programs. And besides, I.G. Bubnov can be safely called the father of the submarine fleet.