'' Maksim Gorkiy '' made news again in December of the same year , when she was used as a venue for an international summit between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . On 26 July 1991 , while on a cruise to Svalbard a television exploded on board , injuring three people . In December of the same year the ship was re-registered to Nassau , Bahamas as '' Maxim Gorkiy '' . Following the collapse of the Soviet Union she was transferred to the fleet of Sovcomflot , who continued chartering her to Phoenix Reisen
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