There were 4 ships of this class: Bayan (I), completed 1904 and sunk at Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war, raised & re-fitted by the Japanese as "Aso" and sunk as a target in 1932; Admiral Makarov, scrapped 1922; Bayan (II), commissioned in 1911, in action against SMS Koenig at Moon Sound in 1917 & scrapped in 1922 and Pallada, blown up and sunk by U26 in October 1914.