Peter and Paul Fortress
Also known as Петропавловская крепость
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DirectionsThe island fortress that Peter the Great founded in 1703 as the first construction of his new city served simultaneously as military installation, state prison, and dynastic burial church. Trezzini's Peter and Paul Cathedral (1733) establis …
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