File talk:Tsesarevich Russian Battleship.jpg

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This is almost certainly a post-1906 photo. The salvo that killed Vitgeft struck the foremast, badly damaging it; while it did not immediately fall, it was apparently shored up while Tssesarevitch was interned in China, and collapsed at some point on her postwar voyage back to Kronstadt. After her refit at Kronstadt, the heavy fighting top that had previously been carried on the foremast was not replaced, because the ship was regarded as somewhat topheavy; the replacement mast was a light pole mast, as seen in this picture, which must therefore date it (as does the grey paint scheme) to the post-1906 era.