The ship was laid down on Novem­ber 19 (29), 1698 at the Voronezh ship­yard. The con­struc­tion of the ship was led by Pyotr Alek­see­vich, and in his absence two Russ­ian ship­wrights Fedo­sei Sklyaev and Lukyan Vereshcha­gin super­vised the con­struc­tion.