Peter and Paul Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the first fortification of St. Petersburg, Russia, established by Peter the Great in 1703 and worked to Domenico Trezzini's outlines from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. In the mid-1920s, it was as yet utilized as a jail and execution ground by the Bolshevik government. Today it has been embraced as the focal and most essential piece of the State Museum of Saint Petersburg History.

The exhibition hall has progressively moved toward becoming essentially the sole proprietor of the post working, aside from the structure involved by the Saint Petersburg Mint. The stronghold was set up by Peter the Great on May 16, 1703 on little Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream island of the Neva delta. Worked at the tallness of the Northern War keeping in mind the end goal to shield the anticipated capital from a dreaded Swedish counterattack, the stronghold never satisfied its military reason.

The fortification was finished with six bastions in earth and timber inside multi year, and it was reconstructed in stone from 1706 to 1740. In the years when the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Peter and Paul Fortress was depicted by Bolshevik purposeful publicity as a horrendous, agonizing spot, where a great many detainees endured interminably in unsanitary, cramped, and terribly packed prisons in the midst of incessant torment and lack of healthy sustenance. Such legends had the impact of transforming the jail into an image of government persecution in the brains of the regular society.