Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: "Admiral Makarov" i hangaia e Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée i La Seyne-sur-Mer, France. I whakatakotoria te kaipuke i te Paenga-whāwhā 1905, a, i whakarewahia ia i te 28 o Mei 1906. I oti te "Admiral Makarov" i te Paenga-whāwhā 1908. I rere te kaipuke mo te Baltic i te 27 o Mei ka tae ki Tallinn, Estonia i te 11 o Pipiri i reira i whakawhiwhia ai ia ki te Baltic Fleet. I etahi marama i muri mai, ka hoki mai ia ki te Moana-a-Kiwa, ka awhina i te oranga o te
Te ru o Messina i te marama o Tihema. I uru ano te kaipuke ki te Baltic Fleet, engari i whakahokia ia ki te Mediterranean i te tau 1910 i reira i tohu ai ia i te Emepaea o Ruhia, me te kaipuke whawhai, te kaipuke whakangungu, me te kaipuke whakangungu, i te koropiko o Nicholas I o Montenegro i Akuhata 1910. I hoki a "Admiral Makarov" ki te Baltic i te tau 1911 ka haere ia ki te tauranga ki Copenhagen i te tau 1912. I te tau e whai ake nei, ko te kaipuke tetahi o nga roopu o nga kaipuke tere moana i toro atu ki Brest, France, te Isle of Portland i Great Britain, me Stavanger, Norway.