Russian battleship Tsesarevich

Tsesarevich, before 1904
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[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
RSFSR
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)
Installed power	16,300 ihp (12,200 kW) 20 Belleville boilers
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
Armament	2 × twin 305 mm (12 in) guns 6 × twin 152 mm (6 in) guns 20 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 20 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 8 × single 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 in)

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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