Together with its sister-ship Saint-Peter (Sviatoi Piotr, Russian: Святой Пётр, launched on 22 July 1799), the Moskva became part of the Baltic Fleet.

Baratynsky (Russian: Баратынский, Богдан Андреевич), she sailed from Arkhangelsk for the English coast to take action against France and Holland in cooperation with the British fleet.

From 1803 on, the Moskva was under the command of Yegor Pavlovich de Goetzen (or Getzen, Hetzen or Jeitzen, Russian: Гетцен, Егор Павлович).

On July 5, 1805, a decree of Alexander I. was issued to prepare a squadron commanded by Vice Admiral D. Senyavin (including the Moskva under Captain E.P.

12 June], she fired on a large caravan of merchant ships leaving Venice for Istria with French gunboats, forcing them back in the port.

[5] From June to September 1806 she participated in actions against the French in Ragusa and Castelnuovo (in Russian hands 28 February 1806 to 12 August 1807).

[8] After armistice with Turkey, on 22 August 1807 a large part of the Russian fleet (5 battleships, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 4 brigs and many captured Turkish ships, under Captain-Commodore Saltanov) was ordered for return to Sevastopol.

On 24 August 1807, Senyavin detached Greig with the Moskva, Sviatoi Piotr and some smaller vessels to re-occupy Corfu, ceded to Russia by France according to the Treaty of Tilist.

[9] The remaining part of the fleet (about 10 ships of line, three frigates)[5] under Senyavin's command reached Corfu on 4 September [O.S.

[1][4] Baratynsky headed back to Russia on land in December 1807,[11] and the two ships were both under command of the captain of the Moskva, de Goetzen, now.

On 24 April 1808 the French brig le Requin ordered the two ships to Toulon to join the squadron commanded by Admiral Ganteaume.

On 3 May, Moskva and Sviatoi Piotr anchored in Toulon,[12] and having stayed there for 22 months, still under Russian flag, the ships' commander de Goetzen on 27 September 1809 had to cede them to France in compensation for repair and supplies to the crews.

[16] By decree of September 27, 1810, ordering the foundation of two new naval schools in Brest and Toulon, the Moskva was converted to a training ship and renamed Duquesne on 5 February 1811.

[20] From 27 September 1811 to 12 August 1815, the professor of military medicine and surgery was Jean Boniface Textoris, Chief Medical Officer of the French squadron at the Battle of Trafalgar.