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 ...

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 ...

Investigators exhumed the remains of the Romanovs, who had been buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and took DNA samples from Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. Official accounts ...

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, ...