Attribution cross

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Сообщение от Mimoprohodil

At the Battle of Sinop Russian did not lose a single ship, if only to let the Turkish case - but illogical ...

"To let Turkey in this matter" - is unlikely, although this practice has been: fence Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg made from captured Turkish guns and still stands today. But a year after the Battle of Sinop, almost all Russian ships participating in it, including the flagship Nakhimova - Empress Maria, were flooded in the Sevastopol Bay in order to prevent thither Anglo-French fleet. Perhaps wishing to honor the memory of these heroic ships, and decided to make a memorial crosses?

Unfortunately, it is all just conjecture, by topic veronika is silent, and yet could say anything about the history of falling to her of the cross ...