Built as an auxiliary iron hulled ship by Nevsky Zavod in St Petersburg for the Russian Imperial Navy.
1877 Laid down.
05 August 1878 launched as the RAZBOINIK one of the Kreiser class.
Displacement 1,360 ton, dim. 70.5 x 10 x 5.1m. (draught), length bpp. 63.25m
Powered by one coal fired horizontal steam engine, 1,786 hp, one shaft, speed under power 13 knots.
Range 1,600 mile by 10 knots.
Armament 1 – 152mm, 4 – 107 mm, 6-37mm and 1 – 64mm guns when built.
Barque rigged.
Crew 8 officers and 105 men.
1879 Commissioned, based at Port Arthur.
After completing in the 2nd Naval Equipage Squadron.
21 October 1879 sailed for the Far East in the squadron of Captain 1st Rank M.P. Novosiltsev.
29 August 1880 at Vladivostok where she joined the squadron of C.S. Lesovsky.
September 1881 returned to Kronstadt in the Baltic for repair and replacement of the four boilers.
09 April 1884 arrived at Honolulu for a diplomatic mission.
End of 1884 she was patrolling in the Chukchi Sea to Cape Serdtse-Kamen, where she confiscated two American schooners loaded with contraband.
October 1885 in service in Chinese waters.
1886 Returned to the Baltic.
10 August 1887 sailed for the Far East from the Baltic accompanied by the Russian Imperial yacht to Copenhagen
Then she visited Le Havre.
01 June 1888 joined the Russian squadron in Nagasaki.
From 1888 till 1889 undertook hydrographic surveys in the Anadyr estuary at the mouth of the Anadyr River.
The crew founded there the first settlement on the shore of the Bering Strait, Novo-Mariinsk (now Anadyr), and four astronomical points.
17 December 1889 arrived in the Baltic via the Mediterranean.
30 April 1890 arrived in Kronstadt.
1892 Reclassified as a cruiser first class.
01 October 1892 sailed from the Baltic for the Far East around Cape of Good Hope.
19 June 1893 arrived in Vladivostok.
1893 In service in the Philippine, Korea and Japan waters.
1894 Patrolling in the waters off Commander Islands.
1895 During a call at Chefoo (now Yantai), China her fore and mainmast were repaired.
22 July 1895 in the Mediterranean bound for the Baltic.
May 1896 arrived at Kronstadt.
28 September 1898 sailed from Kronstadt and visited Copenhagen, Plymouth, Cape Verde Islands, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Honolulu and Yokohama.
1899 Patrolling in the waters of the coast of China and Korea.
1890 Sailed for the waters of the coast of Indochina for intelligence gathering and educational purposes.
From 1898 – 1900 examination (watch) ship at Port Arthur.
December 1901 used for sail training at Port Arthur.
December 1902 sailing with the Combatant Quartermaster to the islands in the Malay Archipelago.
01 January 1903 joined the Kwantung Naval Equipage Squadron.
10 December 1903 she was the last Russian vessel which visited Nagasaki before the Russian-Japanese War.
26 January 1904 arrived at Port Arthur.
February to March used as watch ship at the entrance to the inner harbor in Port Arthur.
March 1904 she was disarmed and the guns were placed in shore batteries, she was classified thereafter as third rang.
19 December 1904 was she scuttled at the fairway entrance of Port Arthur during the Russian-Japanese War around that port.
1905 Was she salvaged by the Japanese and scrapped.
Russia 2004 pre-stamped envelope. (the merchant ship is one of the B540 type of which 21 units were built for Russian account in Poland.)
Source: Gennadiy Sitnikov.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0% ... %80,_1878)