Ship model Russian frigate PALLADA (in Russian Паллада) of 1833

Scale 1 : 50, length 189 cm, width 55 cm, height 128 cm,
More photos: of entire ship, of details. Click on the photos for high resolution pictures!
Price 16000 Euro, plus transport cost

The Russian frigate PALLADA (in Russian Паллада)

The Russian frigate PALLADA (in Russian Паллада) was built in 1833 to the prototype of an American frigate, the USS President. The ship was one of the best ships of the Russian Navy and was thus chosen for taking the Russian consulate to Japan in 1853.
Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin led the Russian expedition which went via England and Africa to Japan. In 1855 a commercial treaty between Russia and Japan was signed.

This journey got well known by the account of the writer Ivan Goncharov, who wrote a travelogue, "The Frigate Pallada", published in 1858.

When the Crimean war started 1854, the ship was sent up the Amur river out of harm's way when the Russians tried to defend the harbour of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula.
In 1855 when the English once again attacked the PALLADA was sunk by her own crew to prevent the English ships getting inside the Amur delta.

The model of frigate PALLADA, photos, description and dimensions

The model was built to plans of A. Larionov gebaut, journal Modelist Konstruktor Nr. 6 - 8/1980. The ship model was built with sails tightly furled to the yards, to allow for a better view on the very detailed, impressive rigging. The main yard is braced up and prepared to lift the boats and let them down to the water.
Please take your time to have a good look at the set of photos. There are several views of the entire ship model taken from all directions, and several closer views of hull, deck and rigging.  If you click on a photo you will get that photo in high resolution. Only these high resolution photographs show how much work and handicraft ability were put in the model.

Viewing the high resolution photos: If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox, press F11 to minimize navigation bars and have a larger screen with the photos. The high resolution photos are about 12 megapixel. So they are about 10 - 20  times larger than your 0.5 - 1.3 megapixel computer screen. Most browsers by default downsize the pictures to screen size, so you cannot see all the details of the ship models. To see the original resolution  move the mouse over the pictures and click on the magnifying lens.

This model of the frigate PALLADA is a very beautiful true masterpiece, with many details shown in hull and rigging. It was built by a very experienced modeler.

The ship model is 1 : 50 scale. Length is 189 cm, width 55 cm, height 128 cm.

Price of the ship model and transport

The price of the model is 16000 Euro, plus transport cost.