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- The Engineering House is a historical building and a unique example of the "Peter's Baroque", located on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress...
- The Peter and Paul Fortress includes several buildings constructed in wide range of architectural styles and for a huge variety of different purposes, ranging...
- The fortress is considered the oldest building in the city. Peter the Great chose Hare Island for its construction not by chance: it is located in the widest point of...
- The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740...
- In 1706 work began on the stone fortress to replace the wooden and earth one and in 1712 work began on the construction of the stone St Peter & Paul...
- Construction of the Peter and Paul Fortress (the Fortress, for short), which laid the foundation of Saint Petersburg, started on 16th May 1703.
- The Peter and Paul Fortress acquired its museum significance in 1766, when a building was built on its territory to accommodate Peter the Great's boat...
- Peter & Paul Cathedral, part of the Fortress built by Peter the Great, founder of St Petersburg, is the burial place of the Czars including the last Czar...
- The fortress was founded on Hare Island 16 (27) May 1703 by the joint plan of Peter I and French engineer Joseph-Gaspard Lambert de Guerin.
