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Rising above the waters on Zayachy (Hare's) Island,
close to where the Neva divides into two arms, are the stone walls
of six bastions belonging to the Peter and Paul Fortress. Here, on
16 May 1703, at the height of the Northern War, a military stronghold
was founded. Peter the Great called it Sankt Piterburkh in the Dutch
manner. After the construction within it of the SS Peter and Paul
Cathedral that was to become the burial place of the Romanov dynasty,
it came to be known by the names of the two apostles. Inside the fortress
today many of the historical buildings house the displays of the State
Museum of the History of St Petersburg. |
