Scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Cavalier of Anna Ioannovna. Museum of the Peter and Paul Fortress

Mushroom soup is a tasty and healthy dish that can "revive" a winter lunch and complement it with an unusual aroma of forest gifts. Unfortunately, fresh mushrooms are not always available, so many housewives use dried mushrooms instead. It is important to cook dried mushrooms so that they do not lose their beneficial properties.

Soaking methods

From dried mushrooms, you can cook not only excellent soup, but also cook fragrant main courses: fried potatoes with mushrooms, pilaf, julienne, etc. Regardless of which dish you plan to use the product for, dry mushrooms are soaked. It is necessary to soak mushrooms for soup properly in order to preserve all their beneficial properties.

Usually, cold water is used to soak a dry product. Hot water is not suitable for these purposes - the dish may lose its taste. Please note that when drying, the gifts of the forest reduce their volume by several times, so take a larger dish for soaking. Further actions:

1. To begin with, dried mushrooms are washed in cold water. This is necessary in order to remove the smallest dust particles, small needles and other "reminders" of the forest. Do not use a colander for this procedure. Better take a bowl or a small saucepan, put the mushrooms in it and fill it to the top with water. After a few seconds, vigorously mix the contents with your hand. So small particles will float to the top, and it will be easy to remove them. If you notice a lot of debris, repeat the process 2-3 times.
2. Pour the product with cold water and leave for 1-2 hours. This will be enough for the forest delicacies to swell and become soft. The quickest and easiest way to soak porcini or any other naturally dried outdoor mushrooms. It is easy to overexpose a delicate product in a dryer or oven, and then it will become hard. If for some reason the mushrooms turned out to be overdried, the soaking time is increased by another 1-2 hours. If it is not supposed to cook mushroom broth, the dried product can also be soaked in cold milk. Connoisseurs say that mushroom dishes after this procedure are especially tasty and fragrant.
3. After the mushrooms have reached the desired state, the water is poured into a separate bowl (having previously filtered it), and the softened gifts of the forest are cut into small strips or pieces of arbitrary shape for further preparation. Water is added to the soup to give a rich taste and beautiful color.

In cases where there is absolutely no time for soaking a dry product, you can do without "water procedures". To prepare a "quick" mushroom soup, mushrooms are ground into powder and added to the first dish as a condiment. This greatly simplifies the preparation of soup, but deprives the dish of its attractiveness. And what could be better for the eater than to see and feel fragrant mushroom pieces in the mouth? Therefore, if time permits, be sure to soak the mushrooms before boiling or frying.

Required cooking time

Pre-soaked dried mushrooms are boiled for no more than 30-40 minutes. This will be enough for the product to be fully usable. Soaked porcini mushroom broth cooks even faster - 20 minutes. It is easy to determine the readiness of a dish - well-boiled mushrooms sink to the bottom of the pan. If several “instances” float on the surface, the cooking time should be slightly increased.

Usually, experienced housewives use the time it takes to prepare the broth to good use. In half an hour, you can have time to make a fry for soup and prepare vegetables and cereals. As a rule, the cooking time for cereals almost coincides with the cooking time for mushrooms, so these two processes can be combined. Add the grits to the mushrooms as soon as the water boils - so the soup will cook very quickly.

But you can cook dry forest delicacies without soaking. If for some reason you decide not to soak the mushrooms, you need to boil them for at least one and a half hours. But remember that prolonged heat treatment worsens the taste of the product, so it is better to take care of the preliminary preparation of mushrooms in advance.

classic mushroom soup recipe

Delicious, fragrant and rich mushroom soup can be prepared from fresh, dried or salted (pre-washed) mushrooms. Many culinary experts agree that dried forest products give a thicker and richer taste to the first course than fresh ones, so it is even more preferable to use them.

Ingredients:

• 2 liters of water;
• 500 g fresh or soaked dry mushrooms;
• 5 medium sized potatoes;
• 1 small carrot;
• 1 medium onion;
• 30 g of vegetable oil;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
• salt, spices to taste;
• sour cream for dressing;
• fresh herbs for decoration.

Cut pre-prepared mushrooms into small strips or equally sized pieces of arbitrary shape. Then fry them in butter, transfer to a saucepan and pour hot water (or water left after soaking the product). Boil the contents over low heat for 30 minutes. After about 10 minutes from the start of the boil, add the potatoes cut into strips or cubes. Finely chop the onion and carrot, sauté in vegetable oil and send to the soup shortly before the end of cooking. Add salt and spices to taste. When serving, add sour cream and fresh herbs to the soup.

Dried mushrooms are a healthy and nutritious product that gives a unique taste and aroma to many dishes. In addition, it is available all year round, does not require special storage conditions and does not take up much space. Rich mushroom soup made from dried mushrooms is a reminder of the warm summer, which perfectly complements the winter diet and saturates the body with nutrients.

Before cooking, dried mushrooms must be soaked in cold water for 1-2 hours. Then, take a pot of water, put the mushrooms and put on fire.

How long to cook dried mushrooms

You need to cook such mushrooms for half an hour in a saucepan under a closed lid.

1. In nature, there are about 65,000 species of fungi.

2. Poisonous Japanese lampteromyces, or luminous mushroom, grows in Primorsky Krai. At a temperature of 10-15 degrees, it emits white light.

3. A dish of mushrooms was served in Babylon, Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece.

4. Mayan and Aztec Indians during ritual ceremonies used hat mushrooms that cause hallucinations.

5. In ancient Scandinavia, there were special detachments of warriors - berserkers who ate a piece of fly agaric before the battle. Under the influence of toxins in the fly agaric, they fell into a furious rage and did not feel the pain and blows of the weapon on the body, sweeping away everything in their path.

6. The hardest mushroom to find is the truffle, as it grows underground. Dogs are specially trained to find it.

7. Dried porcini mushrooms surpass beef, cereals and bread in the amount of proteins, and eggs and sausage in nutritional value.

How to store dried mushrooms

It is recommended to store only well-dried mushrooms, otherwise, if the mushroom is not dried out, it may become moldy and become unsuitable for consumption. Also, do not store overdried mushrooms, which break easily. To determine which mushroom can be used for long-term storage, put it in the palm of your hand and squeeze - a good dried mushroom should not crumble, it may only bend slightly. Try to break the mushroom, if it breaks easily, then the dried mushroom is ready for storage.

The room in which the mushrooms will be stored must be well ventilated and dry. Dried mushrooms should be placed in glass or metal jars with a well-closing lid. To store dried mushrooms, you can not use bags or bags made of ordinary fabric - they very actively absorb moisture and can quickly become moldy soon.

Dried mushroom soup

From dried mushrooms, you can make a very tasty soup that your whole family will love. Cooking soup from dried mushrooms is very easy, and in time the cooking process will take no more than 2 hours. So, we only need four ingredients:

1. Dried mushrooms - 15-20 grams

2. Butter - 4 teaspoons

3. Dill and parsley - bunch

4. Salt - add to taste

Rinse the mushrooms well in cool water, peel and boil in a saucepan until tender. Put the boiled mushrooms on a plate. We take out a cutting board and cut each mushroom into strips. Strain the finished broth, add butter, salt and warm over medium heat. Mix pre-boiled noodles with chopped mushrooms in a bowl. Put a mixture of noodles and mushrooms in a plate, pour the finished broth. Sprinkle washed, chopped herbs on top.

How much to cook dried mushrooms for soup step by step video recipe

We have also prepared a video for you to fully understand the step-by-step cooking process.

From the time of its foundation and at least until the 1930s, St. Petersburg was the flagship of Russian industry. In the capital of the empire, both gigantic factories and shipyards, as well as factories that provided for the needs of one of the largest cities of the world at that time, were concentrated. In essence, St. Petersburg was a whole industrial region worthy of the Urals and Donbass. And today it takes at least three days to inspect its ancient industrial zones. I open the cycle about old industrial St. Petersburg (the continuation of the cycle about old industrial Moscow) with a post about the Peter and Paul Fortress, where, in addition to well-known sights, there is one of the oldest St. Petersburg factories - the Mint, which is still operating.

I think that telling the story of Petropavlovka, this St. Petersburg Kremlin, does not make much sense. The heart of the city, founded on May 27, 1703 (that is, exactly 300 years before the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg) on ​​Hare Island, almost opposite the Winter Palace.

As you know, the best fortress is the one that no one even tries to take. So Petropavlovka has not fired a single combat shot in its history - but the Midday Shot every day since 1864 (not counting the break in 1934-57) has been fired from here (in 1730-1864 - from the Admiralty). In 1712-33, Trezzini built the Peter and Paul Cathedral, which became the burial place of emperors and, until the Soviet era, the tallest building in Russia (121m). Since the 18th century, the main political prison of the country has been here, where the Decembrists, Narodnaya Volya, Dostoevsky and many others have been. Well, since 1724, a mint has been continuously operating in the fortress, the black pipe of which can be seen on the frame above.

Well, just Petropavlovka is the main dominant of the St. Petersburg landscape. Of the "big three" St. Petersburg cathedrals, Peter and Paul Cathedral seems to me the most beautiful.

The plan of the Peter and Paul Fortress is also known, probably, to everyone. 6 bastions connected by curtains, two ravelins outside (Alekseevsky in the west and Ioannovsky in the east), in the center is the Peter and Paul Cathedral. Classics included in school history textbooks. Mint - in the western part of the fortress:

This is how the walls and bastions look from the outside - granite cladding from the Neva side appeared only in 1779-85, while from the side of Petrogradka the walls remained virgin red brick. It seems that I have already grown to that level of truism when granite seems vulgar, and brick is correct:

The courtyard between the Trubetskoy bastion and Alekseevsky ravelin - the most terrible places of the fortress, old political prisons. Roofs and a mint chimney stick out from behind the bastion, and moreover, in the 18th century it was the Trubetskoy bastion that was the mint, until a separate building was built in 1796-1805.

More precisely, the chain of metamorphoses was somewhat more complicated: before the Mint moved to St. Petersburg, the prison was in the Trubetskoy Bastion, where Tsarevich Alexei was imprisoned (1718). Then the bastion became a mint, the fortress briefly lost its prison functions, until a new prison was built in Alekseevsky ravelin in 1769. The current building is from 1797, and its cells remember the Decembrists, the People's Will and even Dostoevsky himself. In 1825, the prison "revived" in the Trubetskoy Bastion, where it operated until the revolution (since the 1870s - as a pre-trial detention center). From Alekseevsky, the prison was transferred to Shlisselburg in 1884.

In addition to the prison, the ruins of the walls have also been preserved. I don’t know when they were poked like that and by whom, but I really want to believe that they are not modern "restorers":

As you can see, the lighting is twilight. I came to Petropavlovka after its official closing (at 21:00), but it so happened that on that very day there was some kind of hitch, the gates were not locked in time, and I turned out to be not the only one so smart, and the fortress was overcrowded at an inopportune time tourists. While they were being caught and kicked out, I managed to see everything I had planned and even a little more. I entered through the Ioannovsky Gate (1740) on the eastern side of Hare Island:

Lanterns with a double-headed eagle on the bridge and an angel on the Peter and Paul Cathedral:

A hare on one of the piles, as if hinting at the name of the island:

John's Gate, view from inside. We are behind the Ioannovsky ravelin. Blood-red brick walls are the main background inside the fortress:

Ioannovsky ravelin was originally isolated from the fortress in the same way as Alekseevsky, but it was heavily rebuilt in the 1890s. The fortress moat was filled up, which is now reminiscent of botardos (walls separating the moat from the river), new buildings appeared, one of which belonged to the Gas Dynamics Laboratory in the 1930s, one of the first Soviet design bureaus involved in the development of a rocket engine.

Particularly impressive are the "live" double-headed eagle and the bas-relief "The overthrow of Simon-Volkhov by the Apostle Peter", which means "The overthrow of Sweden by Emperor Peter".

The outer gates and entrances to the bridges are locked at 23:00, and these gates at 21:00. That is, according to the schedule, I was not supposed to be here, but still sometimes I am very lucky. At dusk, I entered the fortress courtyard and climbed one of the curtains:

The Neva Panorama route is laid here, which is actually paid, but the cashier left on schedule.

The views from the curtains on the Neva and the houses behind it, and on the fortress itself are magnificent. They impressed me indescribably back in 2004, when I was in St. Petersburg for the first time. You can make a separate post on them, but I will limit myself to this view - in one frame there are three masterpieces of world significance - the Winter Palace, St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Admiralty. A little-known fact, but the latter is also one of the St. Petersburg Molokhovs - after all, Peter the Great founded it as a shipyard that worked until 1844 (the current building was built in 1823) - wooden sailboats were built between the "wings" of the Admiralty:

Inside the fortress - the Engineering House (1748-49, on the right) and the Printing House (that is, the printing house, inside the corresponding museum):

Chimneys of the Engineering House:

Behind the trees is the Petrograd Mosque, one of the most interesting buildings in St. Petersburg, built in 1909-13 with the participation of Bukhara masters (although the blue ribbed domes are not Bukhara's signature style, but its eternal rival Samarkand):

Ahead is the main Naryshkin bastion in the fortress, protruding towards the Neva and crowned with the Flag Tower (1731). The flag here, right up to Soviet times, was raised every day at dawn, lowered at sunset, but now it is on the tower continuously. From here the midday cannon fires. In the background - the Kunstkamera, the arrow of Vasilyevsky Island and the cranes of a distant port:

Here "Neva Panorama" ends:

Below - the Nevsky Gate (1780) over the Commandant's Quay (1762-67), before the construction of the Petrograd side in the early twentieth century - the main entrance to the fortress:

Yard of the Naryshkin bastion with cannons. There is a staircase from above that I wanted to go down, but a guard blocked my way, saying that the fortress was already closed. Given that there were crowds of tourists around, it sounded at least strange, so I had to go around to the courtyard:

But from the bastion, I photographed excellent views of the Mint - a working factory inside the fortress, the current buildings of which were built in 1796-1805:

In general, the history of Mints in Russia is quite confusing. The first of them began to operate under Ivan the Terrible (by European standards - a rather late date) in Moscow, survived several reincarnations, and in general the coins of medieval Russia were "famous" for their disgusting quality. At the end of the 17th century, Peter the Great organized a new one, the building of which in the courtyard of the Historical Museum has survived to this day. In 1724, the court was transferred to St. Petersburg, but for the next 150 years, the coin was minted by several courts throughout the country, and the largest was. The heyday of the Petersburg court came in 1874-1942, when it became the only producer of Russian and Soviet coins - before being evacuated to Krasnokamsk, where orders and medals were produced during the war. At the same time, a new mint was urgently built in Moscow, and by the end of the 20th century, it was he who greatly pressed the St. Petersburg counterpart.

Nowadays, ordinary coins are mainly minted in Moscow, while St. Petersburg specializes in orders, medals, and commemorative coins. And now it is one of the most solid enterprises in Russia - almost three hundred years of almost continuous operation, and more than two hundred - in the same building.

I go to the Mint past the curtain with the "Neva Panorama" and the Engineering House:

I even managed to buy into this museum sign and think that the main street of Petropalovka is called that way:

Neva Gate, view from the inside. After a couple of minutes, the police were noisily chasing a tourist out of here:

It was possible and in a straight line past the gate, but I turned to the Peter and Paul Cathedral past the Commandant's House (1743-46). The heart of the fortress, where the commandant lived with his family (appointed by the emperor himself), and here was the administration of prisons and the court chamber, which most of the historical prisoners went through.

Grand Duke's tomb (1896-1908) in the backyard of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, which in turn is the imperial tomb:

The central square of the fortress and the cathedral, infinitely high. Its spire remains the highest building in St. Petersburg, and in all of Russia only two dozen skyscrapers are higher, as well as pipes, television towers and communication towers. "Not in Russian, piercingly tall ..." - this is how Alexei Tolstoy said about him at the beginning of "Walking Through the Torments", describing the atmosphere of a feverish pre-revolutionary Petersburg.

At the foot of the cathedral is the Boat House (1762), where until 1928 the famous "Grandfather of the Russian Navy", the boat "Saint Nicholas", found by Peter the Great in 1688 in the palace barn (now in the Naval Museum on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island) was kept.
Details of the cathedral - the restoration of the rotunda ended quite recently, and without the ugly cocoon the fortress is much more beautiful:

And opposite the cathedral - the building of the Mint by Antonio Porto:

True, the main building was in the woods, so I quote a photo from Wikipedia. Petersburg Mint is considered a masterpiece of Russian classicism in industrial architecture:

I decided to go around the circle, and went along the deserted street between the curtain and the workshops, to the Trubetskoy bastion:

It is possible that the oldest factory chimney in Russia is visible behind this tree - although now the pipes have become almost synonymous with the industrial landscape, they were only built at the end of the 18th century, when ordinary chimneys could no longer cope with the volume of factory emissions. I could not find any data on the oldest pipe in Russia, but most likely it is located in St. Petersburg, where they saved much less on factory buildings than in distant industrial areas:

Opposite is a very beautiful chimney of the Trubetskoy Bastion. As already mentioned, in 1724-1805 the Mint itself was located here. The exposition inside now tells about the prison and its historical prisoners, I examined it in 2004, and it was one of the strongest impressions from old Petersburg.

Between the courtyard and the ravelins. The chimney in front is not older than the end of the 19th century, but rather even the 1920s. I think it puzzles many tourists, at least in 2004 I was very surprised by its presence here.

Moreover, there is a characteristic factory buzz on the street, light is visible in the windows. The windows are covered with very dense bars, through one of which I still tried to photograph the inside of the Mint - everything is very modern there:

Then I walked around the circle, walked past the guard who looked at me puzzled, and ended up at the locked gate. Fortunately, there was also some museum worker nearby, for whom the guards opened the gate. They verbally scolded me, and I apologized: "I see - tourists are wandering around, so I think - openly!". In general, being locked up for the night in the Peter and Paul Fortress would be very strong!

Well, in the next series I will show places where tourists rarely reach - the Kirov Plant, the Powder Plant on Okhta, the many kilometers old industrial zones of the Obvodny Canal and Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue, the industrial suburb of Kolpino. Brace yourself, the story of the old industrial Petersburg will be very long!

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The Peter and Paul Fortress is the historical center of St. Petersburg, located on Hare Island.

Peter-Pavel's Fortress It was founded on May 16, 1703 according to the plan of Peter I. Initially, the fortress was called Zankht-Piter-Burkh, in 1914-1917 - the Petrograd Fortress.

The plan of Peter I implied the presence of 6 bastions connected by curtains, 2 ravelins and a crownwork (originally made of wood and earth, in the 30s-40s and 80s of the 18th century dressed with stone).

In 1703 Zayachy Island was connected to the Petrograd side by the Ioannovsky Bridge.

There are such animals on the island)

The Peter and Paul Fortress has never been used for its intended purpose. It functioned as a prison for political prisoners.

On November 8, 1925, the Leningrad Council decided to destroy the Peter and Paul Fortress and build a stadium in its place. The decision was soon reversed.

The Peter and Paul Fortress has its prototype - the Novodvinsk Fortress at the mouth of the Northern Dvina, near Arkhangelsk. It was built by Peter I a year earlier - in 1702. Today, almost nothing remains of her.

The Peter and Paul Fortress is a historically unique defensive structure with extraterritorial supporting defensive points

Today, the Peter and Paul Fortress is part of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. From the Naryshkin bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, a midday shot of a signal gun is fired daily.

In 1991 on the territory Peter and Paul Fortress a monument to Peter the Great by sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin was erected. Ugly monument))

Since the beginning of the 21st century, various entertainment events have been held on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

I will simply list the main sights of the fortress, sometimes with a brief description - otherwise the article will be too long and boring =) So, on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress there are:

Kronverkskie

Nikolsky

Petrovsky

Eagle close up

I did not find a photo of the Vasilyevsky Gates

Bastions Peter and Paul Fortress:

Sovereign

Naryshkin

Menshikov

Trubetskoy

I did not find a photo of the Golovkin bastion)

Ravelins:

Alekseevsky

Ioannovsky

Vasilyevskaya

Catherine's

Kronverkskaya

Nikolskaya

Petrovskaya

Engineering structures:

Nevskaya (Komendantskaya) pier

Kronverk Canal Peter and Paul Fortress

When planning a trip to St. Petersburg, you should definitely take a few hours to visit the Peter and Paul Fortress, a kind of heart of the city. It is located on Hare Island, at the point where the Neva is divided into three separate branches. The fortress was built more than three hundred years ago, by order of Emperor Peter I. Since then, every few decades, new buildings have appeared here. Nowadays, it is difficult to understand this museum complex without a plan-scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress, which clearly displays all its sights. We will use them in the course of our discussion.

Fortress map

Looking at the scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress, you can see that the complex with its shape will almost repeat the outlines of Hare Island. Six of its bastions are located in the corners, united by walls (they are called curtains).

In the eastern part of the fortress, the front Petrovsky gates rise. Their very name suggests that they were ordered to be erected by the first Russian emperor.

The triangular ravellines protecting the fortress from the east and west were built much later, but harmoniously fit into the general plan of buildings.

It is difficult not to pay attention to the golden spire of the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, clearly visible in the center of the diagram. Without exaggeration, we can say that the cathedral is the center of the entire complex of the ancient fortress.

The heart of the legendary city

Back in 1703, Emperor Peter I, concerned about the security of the power waging war with the Swedes, ordered the construction of a new fortress on Hare Island. The history of the great city of St. Petersburg begins with this building. In the same year, the connecting island with the settlement was built.

At first, it was not planned to build a stone fortress, it was difficult and expensive, the construction was carried out from logs and earth. However, after several powerful floods of the Neva, part of the fragile earthen ramparts was destroyed.

Together with the fortress, the construction of the famous Peter and Paul Cathedral began, however, then a small wooden church.

Immediately after the construction of the wooden fortress was completed, it was decided to strengthen it in stone. Reconstruction began in 1706 from the northern part of the building, the most vulnerable in those days. In 1708 the first stone of the second Trubetskoy bastion was laid.

After the victory over the Swedes, the need for a fortified structure disappeared, but its construction and reorganization continued. And today, on the scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, you can see the buildings laid down by Peter I.

Senate and prison

After the official transfer of the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Senate began its work within the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

In subsequent years, the Mint, the Commandant's House and many other buildings were built on government territory.

Unfortunately, back in 1715, the Peter and Paul Fortress was also used as a prison for political prisoners. This sad story lasted more than one century. It was here that the disgraced Tsarevich Alexei, son of Peter I, died in prison in 1718. The verdict against the Decembrists was announced in the Commandant's House. Among the numerous prisoners, A. N. Radishchev and N. A. Chernyshevsky are known.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the complex of the Peter and Paul Fortress became available to visitors for the first time. Since then, the historic building has turned into a large museum complex, which is not enough to see the whole day.

Tomb of the Romanov family

If you look at the scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress from above, a building with a high golden spire stands out. The building is considered the same age as the native city. This is the famous Peter and Paul Cathedral, in which almost all Russian emperors have found peace since 1725.

When the reconstruction of the first wooden fortress began, changes also affected the church named after the famous apostles Peter and Paul, also built of logs. The beautiful cathedral fully corresponded to the idea of ​​Emperor Peter I about the splendor of the new Russian capital.

On the scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress, next to the majestic cathedral, the building of the Grand Duke's burial vault, intended for the burial of uncrowned members of the Romanov family, is visible. The building was built at the beginning of the 20th century and before the start of the 1917 revolution.

Here it is worth paying attention to the incomparable mosaic icons of the Mother of God, made in Frolov's workshop. And, of course, the majestic image of the Kazan Mother of God, located high on the facade of the building. It is believed that he has been protecting the city on the Neva since the time of its first emperor.

Home for a glorious ship

There is another interesting attraction that always attracts tourists to the Peter and Paul Fortress. On the scheme of the fortress with signatures, an unusual name stands out - the Botanical House. The very idea of ​​building a building to store a small wooden ship seems a little strange these days, but this idea of ​​Emperor Peter I justified itself.

The boat itself is a small sailing and rowing vessel, on which young Peter made his first voyages on Lake Pereyaslavl. The emperor believed that it was with him that the glorious history of the Russian fleet began.

In 1723, the small boat was solemnly transported from Moscow to the Northern capital. And about forty years later, instead of a canopy, a pavilion was built to store it, called the Boat House.

Today, the building hosts exhibitions dedicated to the history of St. Petersburg. Since 1931, the ship itself has become part of the exposition of the Central Naval Museum, and its exact copy, albeit of a slightly smaller size, is exhibited in the Botanical House.

Walk along the walls of the fortress

On a clear sunny day, you should not spare a small amount for an entrance ticket and take a walk along the walls of the fortress. According to local residents, the best panoramic view of the historical center of St. Petersburg and the majestic Neva opens from here.

According to the map-scheme of the Peter and Paul Fortress, it is possible to determine that this route runs from the Sovereign to the Naryshkin bastions. You will have to walk along wooden walkways, which also adds color.

Every day at exactly noon, a shot is heard from a cannon located on the bastion of the fortress. Impressions guaranteed!

Da Vinci apparatus and space suits

The territory of the fortress is quite large, and several interesting expositions are constantly operating on it.

For example, history lovers will be interested in the permanent exhibition "The Secrets of Da Vinci", which presents models of many inventions of the great master. Children can not tear themselves away from life-sized cannons and catapults. There is also a huge mock-up of a wooden-clad tank armed with several cannons. Guests of the exhibition disappear for a long time in a large mirror room, where you can take very funny photos.

And fans of modern technology should visit the Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Inventions. V. P. Glushko, located in Ioannovsky ravelin. Based on the scheme, it will not be difficult to find him in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Here you can see models of the first artificial satellites and an exact copy of the ISS on a scale of 1:50.

Don't forget to take a picture next to the Comet lander that went into space in 1991. Now he flaunts in front of the entrance to the museum.

When visiting the Peter and Paul Fortress, it is possible to buy a single ticket for five excursions. According to reviews, they can really get around in only two days. Therefore, it is better to choose individual interesting exhibitions and spend more time there. And in good weather, you can sign up for a sightseeing tour "Northern Venice" and admire the wonderful views of the fortress from the Neva.

On the territory of the museum complex there are more than eighteen attractions, which are displayed on the map of the Peter and Paul Fortress. You can also walk along the walls of the building, enjoy the sun on the pier and take pictures against the backdrop of the Petrovsky Gates, built more than three hundred years ago.