 While the later classes of battleships and battlecruisers designed for the Imperial Russian Navy shared the turret layout of the "Dante Alighieri", all surviving evidence shows that the Russians decided on this layout for their own reasons.Sources disagree regarding these guns' performance, but naval historian Giorgio Giorgerini claims that they fired armor-piercing (AP) projectiles at the rate of one round per minute and that they had a muzzle velocity of which gave a maximum range of .The ship's secondary armament consisted of twenty 50-caliber guns.