The battleship “Tsesarevich” was built according to the shipbuilding program “for the needs of the Far East” adopted in 1898 - the most labor-intensive and, as events showed, the most responsible program in the entire history of the Russian armored fleet. The program was intended to neutralize Japan’s intensified military preparations Its rulers, not satisfied with the possibilities of broad economic expansion on the mainland, discovered an uncontrollable desire for territorial conquests. These ambitions were reinforced by a threatening increase in the forces of the army and navy, and they were directed exclusively against Russia.