The fate of the steamship swallow from the film cruel romance. "Prince Bagration" - a ship on the shore of Meganom. Description of the motor ship "Lastochka"
The Lastochka motor ship is divided into several functional zones. On the main deck there is a hall for 200 guests. Its interior is designed in a Mediterranean style: large panoramic windows, wicker furniture, natural wood trim, designer elements, exotic plants - you seem to be transported to a corner of paradise while taking a trip on the Lastochka motor ship.
Nearby there is a small and cozy restaurant for 50 people. There is also a banquet hall upstairs with panoramic sliding windows and fresh flowers. There are sofas with soft pillows. The other part of the deck is an observation deck from which you can admire the picturesque embankment of the Moscow River. It is covered with a dome awning. All halls are equipped with multimedia equipment necessary for audio and video accompaniment of the holiday. For an intimate event on board the ship there are 5 VIP rooms for 20 people.
Prices for renting the motor ship Lastochka
The motor ship-restaurant “Lastochka” is a large and beautiful double-deck luxury vessel, which is suitable for organizing a holiday of any format. On board it can comfortably accommodate up to 200 people invited to a birthday, wedding banquet, corporate party or business event.
The rental price depends on the format of the event and the number of guests:
rental of the entire ship: from 3,500,000 rubles +10% maintenance
when renting only the upper deck: from 2,500,000 rubles + 10% maintenance
renting only a veranda (up to 120 people): from 1,800,000 rubles + 10% maintenance
lower hall up to (200 people) - from 750,000 rubles +10% service
lower hall (up to 50 people) from 450,000 rubles + 10% service
The official website of the Lastochka restaurant-boat contains phone numbers where you can book a table or rent a hall for a festive banquet.
Rent the motor ship Lastochka with a restaurant
The ship "Swallow" with a restaurant is famous for its unsurpassed cuisine. The basic principles of its work are high quality and sophistication. The team of professional chefs is led by chefs Domenico Fillipone and Sang Keun Ooh. Their European and Asian treats have received the highest awards, including Michelin stars.
The menu of the Lastochka restaurant-boat includes dishes from real Kamchatka crab, sea urchins, lobsters, as well as desserts prepared by the most famous pastry chef in the capital, Oleg Ilyin.
Promotions and special offers for the motor ship Lastochka
We have included the Lastochka motor ship in the list of current promotions and special offers. You can rent a ship using the “Credit without interest payment” service, and you can also bring your own alcoholic drinks on board without paying a corkage fee. When ordering a banquet for 70 people or more, we will give you a cake weighing 5 kg or provide a photographer for the event who will prepare up to 200 high-quality photographs for you.
Now no one can say for sure how he got to the shores of the Black Sea. The most common version is vague: in the early 1990s, it was bought and transported to Crimea by a Ukrainian businessman. Since then, a huge ship has been standing near Sudak, near Cape Meganom - like a prehistoric sea lizard that crawled out of the water onto land to die...
Tourists taking pictures against the backdrop of the Sudak ship are sure that the object of their attention is the same “Swallow” that the insidious Paratov lured Larisa in love with. In other words, if you believe the local legend, then Meganom has either the “Spartak” or the “Volodarsky” - these are the twin steamships that were filmed as the “Swallow” in the film “ Cruel romance" Built at the famous Nizhny Novgorod Sormovo shipyard in 1914, these ships were not brothers, but sisters - they received the names “Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna” and “Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna”, in honor of the emperor’s eldest daughters. “River Princesses” (as they were called) were intended to transport passengers on the Nizhny Novgorod - Astrakhan line and were distinguished by their large size (91.4 m in length), comfortable conditions and luxurious interior decoration. The ships had hairdressers, rooms for amateur photographers, baths, special cabins for newlyweds; When decorating the premises, polished Hungarian ash, mahogany, mirror glass, as well as the fashionable material anaglit - pressed English cardboard - were used. After the revolution, the ships were renamed. “Tatyana Nikolaevna” first became “Dobrynya Nikitich”, and then “Spartak”, “Olga Nikolaevna” turned into “Alyosha Popovich”, and a little later - into “Volodarsky”. In the early 1990s, having worked for a record period (most of their peers retired in the 1950s), the ships were decommissioned. They seemed to want to turn one of them into a floating museum, the other - to sell it to England for exotic voyages along the Thames. But good intentions remained just that, and the ships perished. For several years they stood near the Rostov embankment, then they were taken to the distant backwaters of the Don, near the city of Aksai, and there, already in the early 2000s, the ships burned down, and what was left of them was dismantled and sawed up...
If the steamships “Spartak” and “Volodarsky” who played the role of “Swallow” perished in the waters of the Don, what kind of ship is standing near Meganom? Experts on the river fleet claim that this is the passenger motor ship “Memory of Comrade Markin” - a ship that has an equally glorious history and an equally venerable age.
This ship is the last surviving representative of the first large series of river diesel screw-propelled passenger ships built in Russia from 1911 to 1917. There were 11 such ships in total. “Memory of Comrade Markin” was built at the Kolomna plant in 1912 and until 1919 bore the name “Bagration”.
Until 1990, it worked on passenger lines in the Volga basin, and after being decommissioned it ended up in Crimea. At one time, this ship was also distinguished by its comfort and rich interior decoration, but little has survived to this day: an antique piano and chandeliers, some decoration elements. But the life rafts and fire extinguisher, with the help of which it was possible to identify the ship (they were marked with the name of the ship - “Memory of Comrade Markin”), were not preserved.
The appearance of the ship also changed quite a lot during its stay in Crimea - the superstructure that the ship had “during life” is now hidden under the new one. In fact, new walls were built, and due to this, the volume of the interior spaces increased, and the width of the open decks decreased. In addition, concrete was pumped into the stern of the ship, under the weight of which the hull cracked and the stern sagged greatly. So this ninety-meter ship, once capable of accommodating 339 passengers and lifting 300 tons of cargo, will never be able to set sail again. Whether it will become a recreation center or a restaurant, as planned, is still an open question.
By the way
Be that as it may, the Sudak ship did appear in films - it recently played a cameo role in the film “Alien” (Russia, 2010). According to the plot of the film, a couple in love is hiding from their pursuers on this abandoned ship. If you believe the footage from the film, the ancient piano on the ship is still in working order - waking up in the morning, the naked heroine plays some kind of improvisation on it.Speaking about shipping topics in cinema and especially in domestic cinema, one cannot ignore Eldar Ryazanov’s film “Cruel Romance”, released in 1984. The film is based on A. N. Ostrovsky's play "Dowry". Filming of the film took place in Kostroma and on the Kostroma reach.
steamship "Spartak" of the Volga United River Shipping Company against the backdrop of the Kostroma embankment
"Swallow" (the original version of this ship was filmed "Spartak") mooring to the Kostroma landing stage
in the background near the landing stage is the decorated steamship "Dostoevsky" - in the film it is "Saint Olga". The entire decor is reduced to the installation of a high chimney, typical of steamships of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.
giving a signal
here is one mistake, a very large one - the farewell to Olga Dmitrievna, who had just married a Georgian prince, Larisa’s older sister - the “Swallow” (Spartak) leaves the landing stage
and when the ship with the newlyweds moved away from the pier, Dostoevsky was already in the frame
nose "Spartak" - "Swallows"
"Spartak" on the move 
wing of the Spartak bridge
steam wheel
the race begins between Swallow and St. Olga
This is already one of a series of forced blunders - the steamer "Spartak" worked on the passenger line Yaroslavl - Astrakhan 
the brass and polished machine telegraph corresponds to the era and is set to the “Full harm” position, and the modern one, used for control, is in the “Stop” position
steamboat racing
"Saint Olga" (Dostoevsky, project 737)
Larisa (actress Larisa Guzeeva, this film was her debut in the leading role - before that she starred in one of the episodes of the TV film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”) speaks with Kuzmich (a steamship mechanic) via a speaking tube. But in the foreground the twisted cord of a modern intercom "climbed"
in the foreground is “Swallow”, behind it is “Saint Olga”
Overtaken. In principle, there is nothing surprising - “Spartak” has a car with a power of 1250 hp, and “Dostoevsky” has only 450. By the way, another “blunder” is connected with this - Paratov (N. Mikhalkov) when he showed Larisa the “Swallow” car , says that it replaces 500 horses. That is, the power of the car is 500 hp. - but in fact the power of the Spartak car is 2.5 times higher. Again - a forced "blunder" - in the early 80s there were already very few steamships on the Volga.
dismantled raft against the backdrop of the Ipatiev Monastery
"Swallow" goes on a voyage with merchants and Larisa on board (the final part of the picture)
bow salon 
Karandyshev is trying to catch up with the "Swallow" on a boat. The tug "Samara" appears in the frame - this is a steam wheeled tug of post-war construction - project 732/733
According to one version, this is the Bystry tugboat. If so, the ship is alive, the steam power plant is preserved. In recent years, the ship has been converted into a double-decker pleasure steamer. Here is a shot with the participation of “Bystry” from the film “Chinese Service” (1999)
"Swallow" in the morning fog
under the main deck
Karandyshev (Andrey Myagkov) runs around the decks looking for Larisa
on deck (carrying out the bow of the middle deck)
ship lobby 
so-called places fourth grade
"vegetable garden" (roof of the part of the superstructure located in front of the wheelhouse)
and now about steamships:
steamship "Spartak", photo dated 1986 - performer of the role of "Swallow" 
built at the Sormovo plant in 1914. Worked until 1990. Subsequently, it was acquired by a private company and distilled together with the same type "Volodarsky" near Rostov-on-Don. Subsequently, both ships were burned and the remains were dismantled for metal (2000s).
Project 737 steamship "Dostoevsky" - it was filmed as the steamship "St. Olga" 
built in 1956, after decommissioning it was used as a floating camp site near Bely Gorodok. In the 2000s, a fire destroyed the middle deck.
UP: In 2014, the ship was dismantled for metal at the site of its last mooring - on the Malaya Puditsa River. State of the vessel in August 2014 (
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33 years ago, on November 23, 1983, the premiere of the feature film “Cruel Romance” took place in the USSR. The film, directed by Eldar Ryazanov and based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play “The Dowry,” was released on the wide screen in 1984 and received audience recognition: the magazine “Soviet Screen,” based on an annual survey of readers, recognized it as “the best film of the year.” And Nikita Mikhalkov, who played the role of Sergei Paratov, a hereditary nobleman and owner of a shipping company, in the film, was chosen by the audience as actor of the year.
Mikhalkov was accompanied on the set by an equally stellar cast of the Soviet screen - Alisa Freindlikh, Andrei Myagkov, Georgy Burkov, Borislav Brondukov, Sergei Artsibashev and many others. Separately, it is worth saying that in one of the episodes, Sergei Arsentievich Seleznev, the current captain, was filmed in the role of a sailor beating the bell. And during the filming of the film, he worked as a second navigator on the ship "Spartak", which is filmed as "Swallow" in the film.
The soundtrack to the film delivers no less than the magnificent acting of the actors: “Shaggy bumblebee, for fragrant hops”, “And finally I will say”, “Under the caress of a plush blanket” - the compositions have become as classic as the film itself.
The action of the film takes place on the banks of the Volga in the fictional provincial town of Bryakhimov in 1877-1878. The opening credits of the film show the Volzhskaya embankment in Yaroslavl, and location shooting took place mainly on the Volga in Kostroma.
The artist Borisov created for the film surprisingly authentic interiors of merchant mansions, steamship cabins, and restaurants of the 19th century. And one of the main roles was played by two real ships: “Spartak”, who played the role of “Swallow”, and “Dostoevsky” in the role of “Saint Olga”.
The steamship "Spartak" was built in 1914 in Nizhny Novgorod (now) by order of the "Airplane" society and began work under the name "Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna", and later became "Dobrynya Nikitich". He worked for the Volga Shipping Company until July 1991, after which, together with the same type steamship Volodarsky, the ship was sent for modernization, which ended with both ships being looted and burned in the late 90s, leaving the remains near Rostov-on-Don. Don.
The steamship "Spartak" on the Volga in 1987. Photo: Ilya Rabin
The steamship "Dostoevsky" on the Volga in 1983 in the role of "Saint Olga". Photo: Vladimir Rozovsky
As for the steamship "Dostoevsky", which was built in 1956 in Hungary, it never appeared on the screens again. After being decommissioned in the early 90s, the ship was used as a recreation center on the Medveditsa River in the Kimry district of the Tver region. In 2014, the ship, abandoned since the early 2000s after a fire, was scrapped.
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Description of the motor ship "Lastochka"
Renting the motor ship “Lastochka” will give you a lot of unforgettable moments and impressions. On this ship you can feel all the comfort and coziness and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
Cost of renting the motor ship "Lastochka"
Renting the motor ship "Lastochka" in its entirety:
- Mon. - Wed., Sun. - from 2,280,000 (two million two hundred eighty thousand) rubles.
- Thurs., Sat. - 2,700,000 (two million seven hundred thousand) rubles.
- Fri. - 3,500,000 (three million five hundred thousand) rubles.
Rent only the upper deck of the motor ship "Lastochka" (veranda + hall):
- Mon. - Wed., Sun. - from 1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand) rubles.
- Thurs., Sat. - 2,100,000 (two million one hundred thousand) rubles.
- Fri. - 2,400,000 (two million four hundred thousand) rubles.
Rent only the veranda of the motor ship "Lastochka":
- Mon.-Wed., Sun. - 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand) rubles.
- Thurs., Sat. - 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand) rubles.
- Fri. - 1,700,000 (one million seven hundred thousand) rubles.
Technical characteristics of the motor ship "Lastochka"
- Project: 305, type Danube
- Place of construction: Budapest
- Year of construction: 1962
- Reconstructed in 2009
- Width, m: 14.3
- Length, m: 77.91
- Side height, m: 3.4
- Displacement, t: 767.78
- Draft, m: 1,301
- Passenger capacity: 360 people
- Registration: Moscow
Layout of the ship "Lastochka"
The motor ship "Lastochka" is a modern double-deck river yacht, which is equipped with the latest technology and is equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay for guests. The entire area of the ship is divided into several halls of varying capacities:
- 1 hall – 140 seats;
- Hall 2 – 160 seats;
- Hall 3 – 60 seats;
- 4 VIP rooms with 10 seats each;
- 1 VIP room – 30 seats.
Interiors of the motor ship "Lastochka"
The entire interior of the ship is made in Mediterranean style, a calm beige color scheme prevails, comfortable furniture complements the composition of the luxury ship. The upper deck is an indoor banquet hall, while tables and wicker chairs are placed around the outdoor perimeter for guests to enjoy the magnificent views of the outdoors.
Equipment of the motor ship "Lastochka"
- Plasma panels;
- karaoke;
- air conditioners;
- multi-level lighting system;
- scene;
- audio equipment
- and many more other.
Meals on board the ship "Lastochka"
The chef of the Lastochka ship is Italian Dominico Filippone, whose skill is known in the best restaurants in Italy, France and other European countries. All restaurants are awarded Michelin stars. Currently he works as a chef on the ship-restaurants “Lastochka” and “Chaika”.
The menu includes dishes of European and Asian cuisines, a wide range of cold appetizers and a rich wine list.
Advantages of the motor ship "Lastochka":
- the presence of several halls of different capacities;
- excellent cuisine on the ship;
- "VIP" class motor ship;
- style and comfort in every corner.
