Peter and Paul Fortress
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 as a star fortress.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia
- Also known as: “Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul”, “Peter Paul Island”, and “Petropavlovskaya Krepost‘”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Artillery Museum and Peter I Monument.
Artillery Museum
Museum
Photo: George Shuklin, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, also known simply as the Artillery Museum, is a state-owned military museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Peter I Monument
Memorial
The Monument to Peter I in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a bronze statue by Mihail Chemiakin. It was designed and cast in the United States in the 1980s and donated by Chemiakin to the city.
Saint Petersburg Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Saint Petersburg Mosque, when opened in 1913, was the largest mosque in Europe outside Turkey. The mosque is situated in downtown St Petersburg. Its two minarets are 49 meters high and the dome is 39 meters high.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petrograd Side and Apraksin Dvor.
Petrograd Side
Photo: Мария.Б., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Petrograd Side is a borough in Saint Petersburg consisting of the islands of the northern part of the Neva delta. Mostly residential, it is also home to several smaller universities, stadiums of FC Zenit and the tallest structure of the city, a 326-m-high TV tower.
Apraksin Dvor
Suburb
Apraksin Yard is a market and retail block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, covering 14 hectares. It is currently under a massive long-term renovation project.
Peter and Paul Fortress
- Categories: military museum, citadel, architectural landmark, and landform
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Peter and Paul Fortress” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fort van Petrus en Paulus”
- Arabic: “حصن بطرس وبولس”
- Armenian: “Պետրոպավլովյան ամրոց”
- Bashkir: “Петропавловск нығытмаһы”
- Basque: “San Petri eta San Pauloren gotorlekua”
- Belarusian: “Петрапаўлаўская крэпасць”
- Belarusian: “Петрапаўлаўская крэпасьць”
- Bulgarian: “Петропавловска крепост”
- Catalan: “Fortalesa de Pere i Pau”
- Catalan: “Fortalesa de Sant Pere i Sant Pau”
- Cebuano: “Petropavlovskaya Krepost‘”
- Cebuano: “Petropavlovskaya Krepost’”
- Chechen: “Петран а, Павлан а гIап”
- Chechen: “Петран а, Павлан а гӀап”
- Chinese: “彼得保罗要塞”
- Chinese: “聖彼得保羅要塞”
- Chinese: “聖彼得與保羅要塞”
- Czech: “Petropavlovská pevnost”
- Danish: “Peter og Paul fæstning”
- Danish: “Peter og Paul-fæstningen”
- Dutch: “Peter en Paulvesting”
- Dutch: “Peter- en Paulsvesting”
- Dutch: “Petrus- en Paulusvesting”
- Dutch: “Petrus-en-Paulusvesting”
- Esperanto: “Fortikaĵo Sankta Petro kaj Sankta Paŭlo”
- Esperanto: “Fortreso de Petro kaj Paŭlo”
- Esperanto: “Petropaŭla fortikaĵo”
- Estonian: “Peeter-Pauli kindlus”
- Finnish: “Pietari-Paavalin linnoitus”
- Finnish: “Pietarin-Paavalin linnoitus”
- French: “Forteresse Pierre et Paul”
- French: “forteresse Pierre-et-Paul”
- French: “Forteresse Pierre-et-Paul”
- French: “Forteresse Saints-Pierre-et-Paul”
- Galician: “Fortaleza de San Pedro e San Paulo”
- Georgian: “პეტრე-პავლეს ციხესიმაგრე”
- Georgian: “პეტროგრადის ციხესიმაგრე”
- Georgian: “სანქტ-პეტერბურგის ციხესიმაგრე”
- German: “Peter-Paul-Festung”
- German: “Peter-Paul-Kathedrale”
- German: “Peter-Pauls-Festung”
- German: “Peter-Pauls-Kathedrale”
- German: “Peter-und-Paul-Festung”
- German: “Peter-und-Pauls-Festung”
- German: “St. Petersburger Festung”
- Greek: “φρούριο Πέτρου και Παύλου”
- Hebrew: “מבצר פטר ופול”
- Hebrew: “מבצר פטרופבלובסק”
- Hebrew: “מבצר פטרופבלובסקיה”
- Hebrew: “מבצר פיטר ופול”
- Hungarian: “Péter-Pál erőd”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Petrus dan Paulus”
- Italian: “Fortezza dei santi Pietro e Paolo”
- Italian: “Fortezza di Petropavlovskaya”
- Italian: “Fortezza di Pietro e Paolo”
- Italian: “Fortezza di San Pietro e Paolo”
- Italian: “Fortezza di San Pietro e San Paolo”
- Italian: “Fortezza Pietro e Paolo”
- Japanese: “サンクトペテルブルク要塞”
- Japanese: “ペテロとパウロの要塞”
- Japanese: “ペトログラード要塞”
- Japanese: “ペトロパヴロフスキー要塞”
- Japanese: “ペトロパヴロフスク要塞”
- Japanese: “ペトロパブロフスク要塞”
- Kirghiz: “Петропавлов чеби”
- Korean: “페트로파블로프스크 요새”
- Korean: “페트로파블롭스크 요새”
- Latin: “Arx Petri et Pauli”
- Lithuanian: “Petropavlovsko tvirtovė”
- Luxembourgish: “Péiter-a-Paul-Festung”
- Macedonian: “Петропавловска тврдина”
- Mongolian: “Петропавловын цайз”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter og Paulusfestningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter- og Paulusfestningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter-Paul festningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter-Paulfestningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peter-Paulus-festningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peter-Paulus-festningen”
- Norwegian: “Peter-Paulus-festningen”
- Norwegian: “Petropavlovskaja krepost”
- Ossetian: “Пётр æмæ Павелы гæнах”
- Ossetian: “Пётр æмæ Павлы гæнах”
- Persian: “قلعه پیتر و پاول”
- Persian: “قلعه پیتر و پل”
- Polish: “Twierdza Pietropawłowska”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de São Pedro e São Paulo”
- Romanian: “Fortăreața Petru și Pavel”
- Russian: “Петропавловская крепость”
- Russian: “Петропавловская Крепость”
- Russian: “Петропа́вловская кре́пость”
- Russian: “Петропавловская тюрьма”
- Serbian: “Петропавловска тврђава”
- Serbian: “Петропавловская крепость”
- Serbian: “Тврђава Петра и Павла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petropavlovska tvrđava”
- Slovenian: “Petropavlovska trdnjava”
- Spanish: “Fortaleza de San Pedro y San Pablo”
- Swedish: “Peter-Paulfästningen”
- Swedish: “Peter-Pauls-fästningen”
- Talysh: “Petropavlovi ǧələ”
- Tatar: “Пётр һәм Павел ныгытмасы”
- Tatar: “Петропавловск ныгытмасы”
- Turkish: “Petro ve Pavel Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Петропавлівська фортеця”
- Ukrainian: “Петропавловська фортеця”
- Uzbek: “Petropavlovsk kalʼasi”
- Uzbek: “Petropavlovsk Kalʼasi”
- Uzbek: “Petropavlovsk qalʼasi”
- Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Peter và Paul”
- Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Petro-Pavlov”
- Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Thánh Phêrô và Phaolô”
- Western Panjabi: “پیٹر تے پال قلعہ”
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