In which European city is the Peter Paul fortress?
Peter and Paul Fortress noon from the Naryshkin Bastion. Annual celebrations of the city day (May 27) are normally centered on the island where the city was born. The fortress walls overlook sandy beaches that have become among the most popular in St. Petersburg. In summer, the beach is often overcrowded, especially when a major sand festival takes place on the shore. Peter and Paul Fortress The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. In the early 1920s,
Peter and Paul Fortress Peter and Paul inmate Maksim Gorky would later state, "Every Russian who [had] ever sat in jail...as a 'political' [prisoner]...[considered] it his holy duty to bestow on Russia his memoirs of how he [had] suffered". The fortress contains several notable buildings clustered around the Peter and Paul Cathedral (1712–1733), which has a bell-tower (the tallest in the city centre) and a gilded angel-topped cupola. The cathedral is the burial place of all Russian tsars from Peter I to Alexander III, with the exception of Peter II and Ivan VI. The remains of Nicholas II and his family and entourage were