The Baltic dreadnoughts played a very ambiguous role. They were created as the main defense of Petrograd from the enemy from the sea. But they did not glorify themselves with particularly active actions. But in the revolutionary events of 1917, their crews showed themselves actively. By October, the crews of the dreadnoughts were ready to faithfully defend what was new, which, in their opinion, deepened the revolution and directed it in the right direction. Note. OCR: Pages with notes with numbers older than 852 are missing in the available scan.