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Battleship Rostislav (1896)

Rostislav: The Russian-build oil-burning battleship Russian Empire It’s unfair to restrict the quality of a ship to a unique characteristic,…

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WW1 Russian Cruisers

Overview of Russian cruisers development Russian Empire (1875-1919) – About 50 ships Like for other nations, Cruisers were an evolution…

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Tsesarevich

Tsesarevich Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship (1901) Russian battleship with a french flavor: Without going into lowly humor mixing vodka and baguettes,…

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Pamiat Azova (1886)

Pamiat Azova (1886) Russia (1886) The old sailing cruiser of the Tsar: Several ships in WW1 had far past their…

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Potemkine (1903)

Potemkine (1903) Russia (1903): Kniaz Potemkin Travichesky (Panteleimon) The Potemkine: Movie famous: The very name of Potemkine evoke the Russian…

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Petropavlovsk class battleships (1894)

Petropavlovsk class battleships (1894) Russia (1894) Battleships – Petropavlovsk, Poltava, Sevastopol Victims of the Russo-Japanese war: The Petropavlovsk class also…

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Navarin (1893)

Russian Battleship (1893) The four-funneled battleship One of the rare Russian battleships which was sunk in action in 1905 rather…

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Tri Sviatitelia (1894)

Tri Sviatitelia (1894) Russian Battleship (1894) The “Three Holy Hierarchs” was an early 1890s pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian…

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Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships (1913)

Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships (1913) Russia (1914) Imperatritsa Mariya, Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya, Imperator Aleksander III The revised Gangut: Russia’s second…

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WW1 Russian Destroyers

Imperial Russia (1895-1921) – About 150 ships Overview of Russian light ships development As in many other navies, Russia started…