Monument to defenders of a fortress

monuments  St.-Petersburg on an extent of two centuries from the moment of the basis was capital of the Russian empire, was its cultural, political centre. Monuments, sculptures and obelisks are dispersed on all city, concentrating, certainly, in the centre Petersburg. Separately: only Petersburg ... →

Shlisselburg  City in Leningrad region, conducts the history from the basis of a fortress «Nutlet», the Novgorod prince Yury Danilovichem in 1323. Initially wooden fortress in 1353 has been reconstructed in a stone. Repeatedly passed from hand to hand, has definitively been won from Swedes in 1702 to year Peter ... →