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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Peter and Paul fortress towers above Russia’s northern capital, St. Petersburg – the golden steeple very recognizable above the city. The melody its chimes plays is always on time, and the ...

MOSCOW — Sunday was to have been the day when Oleg Sokolov, in full Napoleonic costume, would take his life in spectacular fashion at St. Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress. Instead ...

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, ...

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 ...

His body currently lies in a vault in the cathedral at St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress alongside other members of the Romanov family. Next month, Russian authorities say they will ...

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 ...

In pages describing short summers, readers feel the city cool in a salty Baltic headwind outside the Peter and Paul Fortress where the author was imprisoned. Today Spam-coloured Russian bodies ...