Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - "Admiral Makarov" ya gina shi ne daga Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée a La Seyne-sur-Mer, Faransa. An kafa jirgin a watan Afrilu na 1905, kuma an kaddamar da shi a ranar 28 ga Mayu, 1906. "Admiral Makarov" an kammala shi a watan Afrilu 1908. Jirgin ya tashi zuwa Baltic a ranar 27 ga Mayu kuma ya isa Tallinn, Estonia a ranar 11 ga Yuni inda aka sanya shi zuwa Baltic Fleet. Bayan 'yan watanni, ta koma Bahar Rum kuma ta taimaka wa waɗanda suka tsira daga girgizar ƙasar da ta auku a Messina
a watan Disamba. Daga nan sai jirgin ya koma cikin Baltic Fleet, amma an sake shi zuwa Bahar Rum a 1910 inda ya wakilci Daular Rasha, tare da jirgin ruwa na yaƙi, da jirgin ruwa mai linzami, da jirgin ruwa mai kariya, a bikin nadin sarautar Nicholas I na Montenegro a watan Agusta 1910. "Admiral Makarov" ya dawo cikin Baltic a lokacin 1911 kuma ta yi tashar jiragen ruwa zuwa Copenhagen a 1912. A shekara ta gaba, jirgin yana cikin rukunin jiragen ruwa da suka ziyarci Brest, Faransa, Isle of Portland a Biritaniya, da Stavanger, Norway.