The Khrabryi class was a pair of ships of the line built for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1840s and early 1850s.

The two ships were built as part of a naval expansion program aimed at strengthening the Black Sea Fleet during a period of increased tension with Britain and France over the continued decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Both ships saw active service during the Crimean War, with Imperatritsa Maria serving as Pavel Nakhimov's flagship at the Battle of Sinop in November 1853, where the Russians annihilated an Ottoman squadron.

[2][3] Khrabryi saw period of active service with the fleet in the late 1840s and into the early 1850s and both ships were assigned to the squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Pavel Nakhimov on the outbreak of the Crimean War, initially between Russia and Turkey, in October 1853, with Imperatritsa Maria as his flagship.

Khrabryi was damaged in a storm and was thus prevented from taking part in the Battle of Sinop on 30 November, where the Russian shell-firing guns destroyed an Ottoman squadron.