Peter and Paul Fortress

During the tour of the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress you will find a mysterious immersion in the history of the laying and construction of the St. Petersburg Fortress, which became an architectural model of the future Northern capital. On the territory of the fortress back in the time of Peter 1 was laid Peter and Paul Cathedral (cemetery of Russian emperors), Mint, Commandant's House, Engineering House, Hauptvacht, Botny House, and many other unique architectural historical sites.

The Peter and Paul fortress was called the “Russian Bastille”, and imprisonment in it was worse than hard labor, gray, gloomy, raw casemates caused horror in the minds of those who visited it.

In 1872, a secret prison of the Trubetsk Bastion was built on the territory of the fortress, where prisoners were kept in solitary confinement cells. This prison belonged to the police department, the former Secret Office. In modern terms, it is a prison of the NKVD, KGB or FSB only of tsarist times.

The history of the construction of the Peter and Paul Fortress, a visit to the Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Grand Ducal Shrine (cemetery of Russian emperors and Grand Dukes), the secret prison of the Trubetsk Bastion and the secret underground passage (poterna).