The Peter and Paul Fortress is where St. Petersburg was founded. Peter the Great commissioned the building of a fort on Hare Island in 1703 and initiated construction of the fortress. Among its ...

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The Peter and Paul Fortress has had an incredible history: serving as an imperial crypt, a prison for revolutionaries and Romanovs, and even hosting a top secret Soviet scientific laboratory.

In 1851, he was sent to Russia and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. There, Tsar Nicholas I ordered him to write about German and Slavic philosophic ideas. This work was named ‘Ispoved ...

People visit an ice sculpture festival held at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 5, 2025. The event kicked off here on Jan. 1 and will be open to the public until Jan. 14.

St. Petersburg celebrates City Day in June 2006 (ITAR-TASS) ST. PETERSBURG, March 9, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Across the Neva River from the Peter and Paul Fortress and beneath the towering blue and gold ...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 15. /TASS/. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opened with a midday bang from the Peter and Paul Fortress cannon, fired by Governor Alexander Beglov and Chairman ...

the papal fortress originally commissioned by Roman Emperor Hadrian, in celebration of the co-patron saints of Rome, St. Peter and St. Paul. The fireworks show, called “The Girandola,” has ...

The remains of the last Romanov children, Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria (son and daughter of Nicholas II), will be buried in Peter and Paul Fortress, the original citadel of St. Petersburg, ...