She was renamed "Marat" in 1921.
She was sunk at her moorings on 23 September 1941 by two near-simultaneous hits by 1,000-kilogram (2,200 lb) bombs near the forward superstructure. They caused the explosion of the forward magazine which heaved the turret up, blew the superstructure and forward funnel over to starboard and demolished the forward part of the hull from frames 20 to 57. 326 men were killed and the ship gradually settled to the bottom in 11 meters (36 ft) of water.Her sinking is commonly credited to the Stuka Ace pilot Leutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel of III./StG 2, but Rudel dropped only one of the two bombs.


Russian battleship "Petropavlovsk". 1914. 

 This picture was faked by the Nazi propaganda to visualise the (supposedly) triumphal advance of Wehrmacht in Poland on the 01-09-1939. The photograph was taken 2 weeks after the attack, on the 14-09-1939 at the boder crossing between Poland and The Free City of Gdańsk, in Kolibki, not at the Polish-German border.