1. The Peter and Paul Fortress map

The Peter and Paul Fortress map

Plan of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

a – The Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral

b – The Grand Ducal Burial Vault

с – The Engineers’ House

d – The Artillery Warehouse

e – The Main Guardhouse

f – The Commandant’s House

g – The Mint Works h The Boathouse

i – Monument on the supposed place of the execution of the Decembrists

1 – The Tsar Bastion (Bastion of Peter I) with the ramp

2 – The Neva Curtain Wall with the Neva Gate

3 – The Naryshkin Bastion (St Catherine Bastion, the Empress Catherine I Bastion) with the flagstaff tower

4 – The St Catherine Curtain Wall

5 – The Trubetskoi Bastion with the building of prison

6 – The Vasilyevsky Island Curtain Wall with the Vasilyevsky Island Gale

7 – The Zotov Bastion with the ramp

8 – The St Nicholas Curtain Wall with the St Nicholas (Second Kronwerk) Gate

9 – The Golovkin Bastion (Bastion of St Anne, the Empress Anna Bastion)

10 – The Kronwerk Curtain Wall with the Kronwerk (First Kronwerk) Gate

11 – The Menshikov Bastion (Bastion of Peter II) with the ramp

12 – The St Peter Curtain Wall with the St Peter Gate

13 – The St John (Ioannovsky) Ravelin with the St John Gate, half-counter-guards and batardeau, and the Si John (St Peter) Bridge leading to the gate

14 – The St Alexei (Alexeyevsky) Ravelin with the half-counterguards and batardeau, and with the building of archives

15 – The kronwerk with the Defence Arsenal

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The Peter and Paul fortress – Chapter 2

The Peter and Paul fortress – Chapter 2

As reported on July 22, 1705, in the Moscow newspaper Vedomosti, on May 16 in Vyborg a captured Russian captain "alleged that the St Petersburg Fortress was well fortified and could therefore be regarded as the main fortress." In June the Swedish Lieutenant-General Georg Johan Maydell made an attempt to seize the fortress from the north.

Bastion of the Peter and Paul fortress

Bastion of the Peter and Paul fortress

Among them was the already world-famous writer Maxim Gorky, who made an appeal on the evening of January 9 "To all Russian citizens and public opinion of all European governments". Gorky was released in a few weeks thanks to a widespread campaign in Russia and abroad in his defence. While in prison Gorky wrote the tragic comedy Children of the Sun, showing how far the Russian intelligentsia, "blind, drunk not with deeds, but only with pretty words and ideas", was from understanding the real needs of the Russian people.

A tour of the Peter and Paul fortress

A tour of the fortress is best begun on Petrograd Island, from the intersection of Kamennostrovsky Prospekt and Kuibyshev Street. The streets are named in honour of Sergei Kirov (1886-1934), the leader of the Leningrad party organization in 1926-34, and Valerian Kuibyshev (1888-1935), an eminent Soviet political and military figure, respectively.

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4 Dec 2008