 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Gangut yakavakwa neAdmiralty Works muSaint Petersburg. Yakagadzirwa musi wa 16 Chikumi 1909 uye yakatangwa musi wa 22 Gunyana 1911. Pakupera kwaOctober 1914, yakarovera nehanzvadzi yayo Poltava iyo yakanonoka miedzo yayo, yakarongerwa 9 November 1914, kusvika pakupera kwaDecember 1914. Akapinda basa musi wa11 Ndira 1915 paakasvika Helsinki uye akapiwa First Battleship Brigade of the Baltic Fleet. Gangut nehanzvadzi yake vakapa chifukidziro chiri kure nokuda kwemabasa okuchera kumaodzanyemba kweLiepāja musi wa 27 August, kure zvikuru kuti chero kutya kweRussia kwakapinda kunze kweGulf of Finland munguva yeHondo Yenyika I. Akasvika pamhenderekedzo musi wa 10 September, asi akatambura chete kukuvara kuduku. Kumukira kuduku kwakatanga musi wa1 November apo mukuru mukuru wacho akaramba kupa vashandi vacho zvokudya zvetsika zvenyama nemakaroni pashure pokutsvaira. Kudzoka kwomuchengeti wengarava uye nyaya yezvokudya zvenguruve zvakaiswa mumatoyi zvakadzorera rugare mungarava. Musi wa10 na11 November na6 December Gangut nehanzvadzi yake vakapazve chifukidziro chiri kure nokuda kwemabasa okuchera. Haana kuona chiito chorudzi rupi norupi mukati ma1916. Vafambisi vayo vakabatana nekumukira kweBaltic Fleet musi wa 16 Kurume 1917, mushure mekunge vafambisi vengarava vasina basa vagamuchira shoko reFebruary Revolution muSaint Petersburg. Chibvumirano cheBrest-Litovsk chaida kuti maSoviet abvise hwaro hwavo muHelsinki muna March 1918 kana kuti vaendeswe kuFinland yakanga ichangobva kuzvimiririra kunyange zvazvo Gulf of Finland yakanga ichiri kutonhora. Gangut nehanzvadzi dzake vakatungamirira boka rokutanga rengarava musi wa 12 March uye vakasvika Kronstadt mazuva mashanu gare gare mune izvo zvakazozivikanwa seIce Voyage. 