Built according to drawings of ex-Swedish frigate HMS Venus, which had designed by F. af Chapman Built according to improved drawings of ex-Swedish frigate HSwMS Venus, designed by F. af Chapman The design Speshnyi class proved highly successful with the result that the Russian Navy built 34 over several decades.
These last three were built of larch and pine, a decision that sacrificed durability for speed and cost of construction.
The Great Flood of 1824 damaged three, but the Navy salvaged them, and two (Provoryni (1820) and Konstantin (1824)), fought at the battle of Navarino.
Built according to improved drawings of HMS President (1800) The only two frigates, participated the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) consisting of Azov Flotilla 50-gun battlefrigates, 2-deckers 46-gun battlefrigates According to their designer, admiral Alexey Greig, this frigates only by a negligible margin inferiored to 74-gun ships of the line This type of sailing & rowing vessels was intended for the skerries of the Gulf of Finland.
A hemmema (Russian pronunciation "gemam") was a Swedish design by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman.