 Tsesarevich, before 1904
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Retvizan |
| Succeeded by | Borodino class |
| Cost | 11,355,000 rubles |
| Built | 1899–1903 |
| In commission | 1903–1918 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Tsesarevich |
| Namesake | Tsesarevich |
| Ordered | 20 July 1898[Note 1] |
| Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France |
| Laid down | 8 July 1899 |
| Launched | 23 February 1901 |
| Commissioned | 31 August 1903 |
| Renamed | Grazhdanin, 13 April 1917 |
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| Name | Grazhdanin |
| Namesake | Citizen |
| Acquired | November 1917 |
| Decommissioned | May 1918 |
| Stricken | 21 November 1925 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 13,105 t (12,898 long tons) |
| Length | 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 23.2 m (76 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 7.92 m (26 ft 0 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 778–79 |
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Tsesarevich (Russian: Цесаревич) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, built in France at the end of the 19th century. The ship's design formed the basis of the Russian-built Borodino-class battleships. She was based at Port Arthur, northeast China, after entering service and fought in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Tsesarevich was torpedoed during the surprise attack on Port Arthur and was repaired to become the flagship of Rear Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was interned in Qingdao after the battle.
After the war, the ship was transferred to the Baltic Fleet and helped to suppress the Sveaborg Rebellion in mid-1906. While on a Mediterranean cruise, her crew helped survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake in Sicily. Tsesarevich was not very active during the early part of World War I and her bored sailors joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in early 1917. Now named Grazhdanin, the ship participated in the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, during which she was lightly damaged. The ship was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in late 1917 and decommissioned the following year. Grazhdanin was scrapped in 1924–1925.
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