Japanese capital ships and Russian strategic memory

Would public knowledge of Japan's Yamato-class construction push Russia toward greater emphasis on battleships and battlecruisers?

Probably. The scale of the Japanese ships would revive Russian concern rooted in Tsushima and the Russo-Japanese War, despite later land victories against Japan in Manchuria.

The question turns on strategic memory as well as ship specifications. Very large Japanese capital ships would worry Russian leaders because the defeat at Tsushima and the wider Russo-Japanese War remained powerful reference points. Later Russian land victories over the Imperial Japanese Army in and around Manchuria would not erase the earlier naval trauma. In the proposed scenario, public evidence of Yamato-scale construction could therefore strengthen pressure for battleship and battlecruiser building.