The Andrei Pervozvanny-class pre-dreadnoughts were launched in 1906 but did not enter service until 1911. Their launch came just after HMS Dreadnought, while commissioning followed HMS Neptune and came only a year before the Orion class. Five years of fitting out and repeated alteration left the ships internally and externally confused. The class offers a compact example of Russian construction delays consuming a design's military relevance before it joined the fleet.
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Andrei Pervozvanny showed the cost of slow fitting out
A five-year gap between launch and commissioning left Russia's latest pre-dreadnoughts overtaken by successive British capital-ship generations.