Russian battleship Tsesarevich

Tsesarevich at anchor during her sea trials in Toulon, September 1903.
Class overview
Operators:	Imperial Russian Navy Red Fleet
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
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
RSFSR
Name:	Grazhdanin
Namesake:	Citizen
Acquired:	November 1917
Decommissioned:	May 1918
Struck:	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)
Installed power:	16,300 ihp (12,200 kW) 20 Belleville boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 Vertical 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
Armament:	2 × 2 - 305 mm (12 in) guns 6 × 2 - 152 mm (6 in) guns 20 × 1 - 75 mm (3 in) guns 20 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 8 × 1 - 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 4 × 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Krupp armour Waterline belt: 160–250 mm (6.3–9.8 in) Deck: 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) Main Gun turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in) Barbettes: 250 mm (9.8 in) Conning tower: 254 mm (10.0 in)

 Imperial Russian Navy

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, Manchuria after entering service and fought in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. Tsesarevich was the flagship of Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was interned in Tsingtau after the battle.

After the end of 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, she helped survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake. 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 seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in late 1917 and decommissioned the following year. Grazhdanin was scrapped in 1924–1925.