The Borodino class receives a qualified defense as a sign that Russian pre-dreadnought design was improving. Promising later designs still depended on an industrial system troubled by quality control and inconsistent standardization. Andrei Pervozvanny provides the sharper example: an attractive semi-dreadnought on paper could still become a poor construction project. Work stopped and the design changed substantially in response to Tsushima. The resulting problems separate the merits of the original concept from the yard practices and repeated alterations that shaped the finished ships.
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Russian battleship designs and the limits of their shipyards
Borodino and Andrei Pervozvanny separate improving Russian design ideas from the construction practices and repeated alterations that limited their results.