He was a man of great energy and an able administrator, who extended Russian rule in the south, carried out a series of army reforms, annexed the Crimea in 1783, and built a Black Sea fleet and a naval base at Sevastopol. In the war with the Turks he was made army commander and died in a year of Russian military victory. The battleship named after this soldier is famous for the mutiny that occurred on it in 1905. This incident persuaded the Emperor to agree to the election of a Duma.