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Peter and Paul Fortress

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Peter and Paul Fortress

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    July 30, 2018

    Hiking

    The Peter and Paul Fortress is the nucleus of Saint Petersburg.
    Founded by Tsar Peter the Great at the strategically important Neva Estuary, this fortress was the beginning of a success story that turned it into a metropolis in just 300 years.
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    The Peter and Paul Fortress is a place of pilgrimage for Romanov worshipers and monarchists: the local Peter and Paul Cathedral is the last resting place of the princely Romanov family
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    February 20, 2020

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    May 16, 1703 is the day St. Petersburg was founded. That day the construction of the fortress on Rabbit Island in the swampy Neva Delta began. Tens of thousands of serfs who lived in huts built earth walls that were replaced by stone walls a few years later.
    During the construction of the fortress, more than 100,000 people died due to fever, epidemics and debilitation. Source: petersburg-info.de/die-peter-und-paul-festung
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