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Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress (3 Petropavlovskaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg) –
during the early 1700s, Peter the Great, concerned about attacks from the nearby Swedish army or navy, built this impressive fortress on tiny Hare Island within the city. With such a military threat unrealized, it became a jail and torture chamber (housing prominent historical like Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leon Trotsky, and Alexander Lenin — brother of Vladimir). The one time it was actually attacked was during the Russian Revolution. It became a museum in 1924.
Admission: RUB 280 (adult), RUB 150 (student). Hours: 10 am – 6 pm (weekdays), 11 am – 6 pm (Saturday), 10 am – 5:45 pm (Sunday). See more details at: www.spbmuseum.ru