She was built at Nikolaev on the Black Sea during the First World War but was not completed before the end of hostilities.

She was stationed with the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol but saw no action due to the cessation of hostilities in December 1917.

In November 1918, with the German surrender, she was taken over by the Anglo-French intervention force and transferred to the Whites under General Wrangel.

[1] In November 1920, she was part of the evacuation of Wrangel's fleet and was interned at Bizerte in French North Africa.

In 1924, she was recognized by the French as the property of the Soviet government but did not return to the USSR and was later scrapped at Bizerte.