Dunno about that, but because of those massive box launchers installed on deck, Moskva was always horrifically vulnerable until it emptied them and that was by design. The launchers could not be heavily armored or the ship would be too top heavy. The original design brief for the ship was to fire them all at an enemy formation in a first strike or if approached by an existential threat, to fire them all before it could get there. Think ‘PT Boat, only with massive capital ship killing missiles instead of torpedoes’ and you have the idea of how vulnerable the thing was until it got all of the missiles away.
Wasn’t the Moskva also sort of an AWACS of the sea, with all sorts of electronics the other ships did not have and connected anti-aircraft missiles to use to protect the rest of the fleet?
FWIW after the fact.
60 Minutes just posted a video tour of the Moskva done awhile back. Haven’t watched it yet....anyway here’s the link...12:36