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Luxury hotels in St. Petersburg are also available from our site. St. Petersburg Hotels has negotiated rates at most St. Petersburg luxury hotels.Travel to St. Petersburg is easy. St. Petersburg hotels are accessible by sea, land and air.Petropavlovskaya Fortress - The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
In 1975, a permanent exhibition about the history of St. Petersburg was opened in the building of the former Commandant's House. It provides insights into the history of the Neva lands from early times to the founding of St.Petersburg in 1703, and traces the development of the city until the mid-19th century. The Engineers' House is now used for various displays of material from the museum's rich reserves. A museum devoted to Russian rocketry and the history of cosmonautics is also to be found within the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is situated in the halls that served as the testing grounds of the first Soviet rocket engine laboratory in the 1930s. The Gas Dynamics laboratory was headed by Victor Glushko, the man who initiated rocket engine production in Russia. The rooms in which the designers worked have been restored to their original form. The exhibition provides information about the founders of Soviet cosmonautics - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Nikolai Zhukovsky and Sergei Korolev, to name but three. Here you can see the starting control apparatus of the spaceship Soyuz-16, models of various types of rocket engines and spacecraft equipment, authentic space suits worn by cosmonauts and photographs of the Moon, Venus, Mars and Saturn taken by Soviet astronauts. Documents and photographic material on the testing of rocket engines and the launch of the first Soviet missiles are also on display. Every day at noon a shot is fired from the cannon on the Naryshkin bastion and every year, on 27 May, the Peter and Paul Fortress is the site of celebrations marking the Day of the City. Essential Information for Visitors►Address and Contact Details 7 Peter and Paul Fortress Open: 10am - 6pm For foreigners 45-90R ►Back to top Visit St. Petersburg in summer, winter, spring or fall. Our extensive list of discount hotels in St. Petersburg is a good place to start when planning your trip. Three star hotels in St. Petersburg are available for great prices not only in the winter but in the summer as well. Browse our site to learn more. | ||||||||
The Museum of the History of St.Petersburg has several exhibitions on the premises of the fortress. The oldest of these is located in the former prison of the Trubetskoi bastion, built between 1870 and 1872. From the time of Peter the Great, criminals accused of treason against the State were kept in the casemates of the fortress and later in the dungeons of the Secret House in the Alekseevsky ravelin. Among the prisoners of the Russian Bastille were Peter's own son, Tsarevich Alexei; Artemy Volynsky, the cabinet-minister of Empress Anna loannovna; the leader of the Polish revolt, Taddeusz Kosciuszko; members of the Russian liberation movement, including Alexander Radishchev, the Decembrists, the Petrashevtsy, the great writer Fedor Dostoyevsky, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the revolutionary democrat Nikolai Chernyshevsky, the geographer and nihilist Peter Kropotkin, the writer Maxim Gorky, members of the People's Will organization, socialist-revolutionaries and Bolsheviks... After the February Revolution of 1917 the ministers of the overthrown Tsarist government were incarcerated in the Trubetskoi bastion and on the night of 26 October 1917 members of the Provisional Government were brought to its prison. During the Civil War, victims of the "red terror" and participants in the Kronstadt revolt of 1921 were held here. The exhibition, which was first opened in the former prison in 1924, gives an idea of its construction and the conditions in which several generations of prisoners were kept.