The Peter and Paul Fortress is where St. Petersburg was founded ... the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings ...

By November the fortress of Sankt Piter Burkh –"Saint Peter's Burg" – had its basic structure. It was named in honor of the Russian Orthodox festival of Saints Peter and Paul (June 29 ...

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.

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 ...

Each year on June 29, fireworks are launched from atop Castel Sant’Angelo, the papal fortress ... Sts. Peter and Paul, and whenever a new pope was elected. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

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, ...