Tyrtov, Pavel Petrovich

• On April 28, 1854 he graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps, enlisted as midshipman in the 15th naval crew with the remainder of the corps in the officer class, and completed his education after the war.
• He was assigned to the Navarin corvette , with which he went abroad, but the ship returned to Kronstadt due to an accident.
• 1854-1859 - service in the Baltic:
  • 1854 - Officer of the ship "Vilagos", defending Kronstadt.
  • 1855 - Kamchatka steam frigate officer and flag officer under Vice Admiral I. I. von Schantz .
  • 1856 - Officer of the Do Not Touch Me ship. Participated in hostilities against the enemy squadron in the Gulf of Finland . He was awarded a bronze medal on the Andreev ribbon "In memory of the war of 1853-1856" .
  • After graduating from the Officer Class, he was promoted to lieutenant on June 6, 1857 and served as a flag officer with the commander of the Baltic Squadron from 1857-1859, sailing on the Kamchatka and Valiant steam-frigates, the Gangut armored ship, the Sterlet gunboats and "Gull".
• 1860-1865 - officer, then senior officer of the frigate " Oslyabya ". He served in the Mediterranean Sea and went to the shores of the Pacific Ocean and on August 5, 1864 was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the III degree .
• 1865-1867 - senior officer of the armored frigate " Admiral-General ." In May-August 1865, as part of a squadron under the command of Admiral General Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, he sailed in the Baltic Sea to Stockholm and Copenhagen . January 1, 1866 promoted to the rank of captain-lieutenant. In 1866-1867, on the same frigate, under the command of captains of the 1st rank I. I. Butakov and M. Fedorovsky, he crossed from Kronstadt to the Mediterranean Sea and vice versa. On January 1, 1868 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the IV degree , and on May 27 of the same year he was awarded the Greek Order of the Savior of the Officer Cross.

January 1, 1869 he was appointed commander of the sail-screw clipper "Diamond" with the transfer to the 1st naval crew. On March 11 of the same year he was transferred to the 2nd naval crew.

April 7, 1869 he was appointed commander of the gunboat " Smerch " with the transfer to the 6th naval crew. During the summer companies of 1869-1871 he was sailing in the Baltic Sea. On January 1, 1870 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav II degree with the award on January 1, 1872 of the imperial crown to him.

On January 1, 1872 he was appointed commander of the Askold corvette ^[1] with transfer to the 2nd Navy crew, circumnavigating the world in 1872-1874, for which he was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the II degree . January 1, 1874 promoted to the rank of captain of the 2nd rank, and September 22, 1877 the rank of captain of the 1st rank ^[2] . For the preservation of the corvette, January 26, 1881, it is allowed to produce surplus, by rank, table money in the amount of 702 rubles per year.

• 1879-1880 - commander of the armored battery " Do not touch me ."
• 1880-1881 - commander of the armored frigate " Prince Pozharsky ." He participated in a campaign in the Pacific Ocean, where he was engaged in scientific research. He was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.

In 1881–1884 he commanded the armored frigate “ Vladimir Monomakh .” He took part in campaigns along the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. He was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the III degree in 1882, and on January 1, 1884 he was awarded the highest favor. On April 15 of the same year, it was allowed to save table money as a commander of a vessel of the 1st rank in the amount of 2 thousand rubles a year.

On June 7, 1884 he was assigned to the 8th naval crew and in 1885 participated in the work of the commissions for the revision of the Maritime Charter and maritime signals, for which May 20, 1885 he was announced the nominal Highest Grace.

On January 1, 1886, he was appointed correcting the position of assistant chief of the Main Naval Headquarters , and on April 13, 1886, rear admirals were made with approval in their posts. In 1887, raising the flag on the steamer Dnepr, he commanded the Skerry detachment of the Practical Squadron of the Baltic Sea . In 1888 he was awarded the German Order of the Crown of the II degree with a star. In 1889, on the battleship Peter the Great , the cruiser Asia , the steamboats Worker , Ilmen and the schooner Slavyanka, as the junior flagship of the practical squadron, he cruised in the Gulf of Finland. He was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav I degree.

In 1890 he participated in the work of the commission for the transformation of the management of the marine department, for which on April 1 he was awarded the highest favor.

September 8, 1891 appointed chief of the squadron of the Pacific Ocean. Holding the flag on the cruisers " Memory of Azov ", " Dmitry Donskoy ", " Vityaz " and the gunboat " Beaver " cruised off the coast of China and Japan. In 1892 he was appointed correcting the position of senior flagship and awarded the Order of St. Anna of the I degree . August 30, 1892 promoted to the rank of vice admiral . In 1893 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Class I.

In 1893 - Head of the Main Directorate of Shipbuilding and Supply and Chairman of the Voluntary Fleet Committee. In 1894 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir II degree .

On July 13, 1896 he was appointed managing director of the Ministry of the Sea and a member of the Council of State .

On December 6, 1896, he was elected an honorary member of the conference of the Nikolaev Naval Academy and awarded the Order of the White Eagle, and the following year he was awarded the Austrian Order of Leopold the Great Cross , the French Order of the Legion of Honor and the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, Class I.

On December 6, 1901, he was promoted to admiral , and on April 14, 1902 he was appointed adjutant general .

He died suddenly on March 4, 1903. He was buried in the Isidor Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree.
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree.
• Order of St. Vladimir 2nd degree
• Order of the White Eagle
• Order of Alexander Nevsky
• Foreign orders.

In honor of P.P. Tyrtov named:

• Cape Tyrtova (now Pegandan) in the Sea of ​​Japan. Inspected in 1893 by the crew of the Vityaz corvette.
• Tyrtova Bay on Novaya Zemlya
• Tyrtova island in the Kara Sea, the Nordensköld archipelago. It was discovered and mapped by the polar expedition of 1900-1903.

• Wife: Maria Lvovna (04/06/1848 - 04/28/1894) - was buried in the Isidorov Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .
• Daughter: Maria Pavlovna (1869—?).

• Almanac of modern Russian statesmen . - SPb. : Type of. Isidore Goldberg, 1897. - S. 191-192.