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The pre-dreadnought-type warship began construction in 1898 at the Mykolaiv shipyard on the Black Sea and was commissioned six years later as Knyaz Potemkin Tavrichesky. It was named after the renowned 18th-century military leader, Prince Potemkin, a favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. The ship could hold a crew of 780 and featured technical...

Tolstoy did not aspire to be a writer but a prophet. His work became contradictory as he did not pursue what he was born for. Literature historians claim that if he had only been a writer, he would not have searched for meaning throughout his life, nor would he have had a constant sense of guilt.