St. Petersburg Fortress
Photostory about The Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg
Valery Pikulev
Valery Gulyakin
© Valery Pikulev, 2018
© Valery Gulyakin, 2018
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Dear reader! Last time we left you as it is remembered, on Troitsk to the bridge (see Valery Pikulev and Valery Gulyakins book Acquaintance to St. Petersburg. Photostory about the Great City). What brought us on this bridge? Yes, it is simple, from it, from Trinity Bridge, it is possible to survey all historical part of St. Petersburg at once, right on the spot. Moreover, for most of guests of St. Petersburg, and they arrive in our city, as a rule, from the South (from Moscow), it is simple not to bypass this bridge. Now it is necessary to descend from the place, nevertheless, we pass from nodding acquaintance to the Great City to deeper which for the majority, it is sure, will turn into great friendship, so, it is necessary to descend from Trinity Bridge and to go there from where the city began.
And so far we will look once more at our handsome, at Trinity Bridge.
Type of The St. Petersburg (Peter and Paul) Fortress from a channel. Big Neva at the left (off-screen)
And so Peter and Paul Fortress at a descent from Trinity Bridge looks
Storm of The St. Petersburg Fortress
Well, we start storm of The Peter and Paul Fortress quite so we, Petersburgers, in a familiar way we call Peter and Paul and if absolutely officially, St. Petersburg Fortress. Before starting this no laughing matter, detailed acquaintance to fortress, investigating all its back streets and being inspired by genius of architectural concepts, we will approach at first Ioannovsky Bridge, to very first of the St. Petersburg bridges. However, in those far times it was called Petrovsky
Ioannovsky Bridge through the Kronverksky passage (through that to a channel)
On one of pile ice-cutting blocks before the bridge the figure of the hare who escaped from a flood established here to the 300 anniversary of the city is well distinguishable. On one of legends, during a flood the hare found rescue, having jumped on a boot to the tsar Pyotr Here, tourists for luck also throw coins, trying to get a hare directly into a pan!
Ioannovsky Bridge one of two ways conducting in The Peter and Paul Fortress.
One more symbol of the city: the hare who escaped from a flood
The bridge is thrown through the Kronverksky passage and connects the Hare island on which the Peter and Paul Fortress is located, to the Petrograd island where we now also are, having descended on it from Trinity Bridge.
Petrovsky Bridge, namely so it was called in the beginning, arose at the same time with construction of The St. Petersburg Fortress, was adjustable and leaned on wooden barques. Then, in 1706, instead of the floating bridge appeared lifting, already on the wooden piles replaced subsequently with stone foundations. Since 1887 began to be called Ioannovsky according to the name of one of fortress ravelins.
A little more than 150 meters long and 10 meters wide, the bridge does not suppress the sizes, but its wooden flooring which is boomingly giving steps, a decor of a protective lattice with semi-antique lamps Yes, link of times is felt here mighty well!
Lamps and fragments of a decor of a protective lattice of Ioannovsky Bridge
Yes, link of times is felt here
Footpath, to the left of the bridge, winding along external walls of fortress, conducts directly to the city beach, and the path which is running away to the right to the helipad from where it is possible to make flight over the city.