The Russian naval history was re-created in the early 19th century when the Governor of Vladimir, poet and historian Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgoruky, built a stone mansion for the Peter Museum on the place where the fleet originated, on money donated and collected by people of the Pereslavl Uyezd. The Museum was ceremonially inaugurated on August 1,1803. Nowadays there are rare exhibits of the Peter's toy fleet in the Museum. The Museum can also boast rare pictures, engravings, portraits and sculpture from the 18th century. A monument to Peter the Great was unveiled on August 17, 1852, in front of the Museum. On 1918 the "Jolly-Boat" Estate was proclaimed a State Monument of History. The exposition under the title of "The Pleshcheyevo Lake as the Cradle of the Russian Navy" opened on July 29,1984.