# Talk:Russian monitor Novgorod

I have been amassing data for many years on these type of circular ironclads. This is for a definitive book following an early article in 1974 on these vessels that I had published in the INRO (International Naval Research Organization Journal) " Warship International " (Ref: No 3 1974 p 218).
Would appreciate any data people may have concerning them including rare photographs.
Dr Cliff Roffey
e-mail address;  cgroffey@aol.com

We really ought to have an image - surely one of the ones in the external links is out of copyright? -- ALoan (Talk) 17:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

There is a spectacular painting in Commons currently. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 15:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

A translation/explanation of "popovka" the first time it appears would be appreciated by people who don't speak Russian. (i.e *why* did Tsar Alexander nickname it "popovka" - is it a slang term for "great wallowing beast"? Is it a reference to a similarly shaped bread roll? Is it just Popov's name with a '-ka' attached? Then what does the '-ka' mean? Is it a marker for a diminutive? a superlative? an expletive? Is there any significance for the Tsar to be giving it a nickname?) With the statement as it is currently, I feel I'm missing something that would be obvious to someone with more knowledge of Russian and 19th century Russian history. -- 160.129.138.186 (talk) 16:01, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

The middle paragraph of the background section wasn't clear enough to show the relationship between the nickname and the designer?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:04, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
This wasn't obvious to me either. I've tweaked the sentence to indicate that the nickname is derived from the designer's surname. Modest Genius talk 10:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi all, I added the "this article relies heavily on one source" template because the supermajority of sources were from Mclaughlin. JuxtaposedJacob (talk) 05:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Sadly, McLaughlin is the only thorough discussion of the ship available in English. And I'm not about to try and translate his Russian sources just to get rid of this template.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:41, 25 January 2022 (UTC)