Perast Nautical Academy
Academia náutica de Perast
- Date
- 1698 · confidence medium
- Place
- Perast, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro
- Credited to
- Marko Martinović and the Perast community
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A school founded to train captains and pilots for the Perast merchant and war fleet. It received Russian pupils sent by Peter I, including future officers of the Baltic fleet.
Founded around 1698 by Marko Martinović; it operated into the 19th century. The details of the Russian pupils come from Perast historiography.
What it led to
- professional nautical training in the Adriatic
- a naval link between the Bay of Kotor and Russia