Zayachiy (hare) island, fortress St.-Petersburg

Kronverk  Horseshoe defensive building originally constructed for protection fortresses St.-Petersburg from Birch island (nowadays Petrograd side). Has been at first surrounded by ditch and shaft which have partially remained. At present in ... →

Present Peter and Paul cathedral is built on a place of the initial wooden. Is the central dominant Peter and Paul Fortress and the spike is visible from many points in the centre St.-Petersburg. In a stone cathedral the — wooden spike has suffered ... →

Peter and Paul Fortress  From it originates a city, and a name to Northern capital too is given originally to a fortress St.-Petersburg. Date of the basis of a fortress considers on May, 27th 1703 year, and this day the City Day is marked. It today even in official publications: ... →

Petrograd side  Initial name of the largest island in delta Neva was Birch. Nowadays this general name for several islands. Under protection of two fortresses — Kronverk and St.-Petersburg — began to lodge the first townsmen. After construction ... →

Petropavlovka  After defeat of the Swedish fortress the Nienschanz built at a confluence in Neva the rivers of Okhta (opposite to that place where Smolny is nowadays located), Peter I on May, 16th 1703 has put a new fortress more close to the sea, ... →

St.-Petersburg is based in 1703 to year.

coast of the Neva delta from of old were a part of the earths of Great Novgorod. Neva — one of sites of an ... →