St. Petersburg: The Peter & Paul Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703. We spent day 3 crossing the bridge and roaming around this place. Not every place within the fortress is free, but with our student ID we managed to save 320 rubles :) but unfortunately it doesn’t cover all the places. 

There were 2 statues at the main entrance

Visitors to the fortress can again see the Angel keeping vigil over Peter the Great's city.

Some hand drawn pictures showing a segment of brief history

Amazed at their detail and meticulous art piece, this was created using colour pencil

Next, we headed to The Old Printing House. There were some displays of ancient machines used to produce these artworks.

Some French guy used colour pencil to colour the Church of Saviour & Blood

Fashion, an important element in life even back in the old days

This is my favourite piece among all. Technique used: wet on wet.

We headed outside to the fortress wrath and shot some pictures.

The Neva Gate

You can see the bridge from here

You can also take a walk here, the Southern Wall. Tickets costs around 100 rubles if I’m not mistaken, but since the sun was blazing hot I don’t see the reason to do so.

If you find yourself in the vicinity of the Peter and Paul Fortress at noon don't be surprised to hear a loud cannon shot from the Naryshkin Bastion. It was Peter the Great himself who introduced the practice of firing a cannon from the fortress every day at noon.

We arrived at this garden with gigantic artistic chairs made in abstract way that Dennis' claimed to be Alice In Wonderland.

Some faggot thought that this was a lollipop

Mike & I, outside Komendantsky Dom

We visited an interesting museum.

Amours used during the war

A series of replicas portraying their lifestyle

These are tools for making artificial flowers, amazing right!

Forgotten what this briefcase is for, but I think it would be pretty cool if it’s a cobbler or barber’s case?

Ancient typewriter, I wonder if it’s Mac

Another fascinating thing in the museum was this human live-size doll house!

    Look how detailed it is! Even Barbie couldn’t beat this!

It’s even taller than me

 Fancy lights that probably IKEA won’t be able to produce

We went to The Grand Dukes Mausoleum where they rebury most of the great dukes in here

That’s a statue of his head

In front of torture chamber, was supposedly to act scared but then baboon wouldn’t cooperate

Among all the places in this fortress, the Trubetskoy Bastion was the lamest of all. Every single rooms were similar with a brief story about the previous prisoners staying. There was one interesting one though, about some lady who got insane and burned herself to death.

Boo! End of post