This 120-gun battleship of the 1st rank is called the "swan song of the sailing fleet." He was immortalized on eight canvases by I.K. Aivazovsky (no other ship the great marine painter wrote so many times). Built using the latest technology, armed with the most powerful 68-pound bomb guns, the Twelve Apostles was a "model of ship architecture," a "giant floating fortress," the flagship and pride of the Black Sea Fleet. According to Emperor Nicholas I, "this ship will finish off its enemy in order, whoever he is." His "finest hour" was to be a breakthrough through the Bosphorus and the liberation of Constantinople. But, alas, this operation was canceled, and the sailing era was already coming to an end. The "Twelve Apostles" still had a chance to participate in the Caucasian landing forces, his sisterships "Paris" and "Grand Duke Constantine" distinguished themselves in the Battle of Sinop, the guns and crews of these ships played an important role in the defense of Sevastopol, and they themselves were flooded at the Sevastopol raid...