Sts Peter & Paul Fortress


The gold vertical of the spike continuing a harmonous belltower of a cathedral, towering above severe granite walls and bastions of the Sts Peter and Paul Fortress is from apart visible. The windvane crowning the spike - the Figure of an Angel with a Cross is a symbol of St Petersburg.


Nobody could foresee difficulties with what builders have collided. Construction of the cathedral proceeded forty years till 1858, and has demanded enormous work of many thousand people.


Here the city has been based. On May, 16(27), 1703 the fortress named Sankt Peterburh has been incorporated. In 1712 under the project of architect Domeniko Trezini construction of a stone cathedral Sts Peter and Paul has begun. Subsequently all fortress was named the same.

Now the cathedral serves as an imperial tomb. Here Russian emperors from Peter the Grate up to Alexander the Third are buried.