PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS, Introduction
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Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The Peter and Paul Fortress is a citadel originally built as a bastion fort on Hare Island, also known as Zayachy Island, by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703. It was designed by the great Swiss architect Domenico Trezzini.
The fortress was founded as a military citadel during the Great Northern War, which lasted from 1700 to 1721. Peter the Great had a splendid cathedral built within; it was here that he wanted his remains and those of his successors buried. He also ordered the building of a court palace, a courthouse and prisons, located in the Trubetskoy bastion....