The Shlisselburg Fortress or Oreshek Fortress (Russian: Крепость Орешек) is one of a series of fortifications built in Oreshek (now known as Shlisselburg) on Orekhovy Island in Lake Ladoga, near the modern city of Saint Petersburg in Russia. The first fortress was built in 1323. It was the scene of many conflicts between Russia and Sweden and changed hands between the two empires. During World War II, it was heavily damaged. Today it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.
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ShlisselburgFortress or Oreshek Fortress (Russian: Крепость Орешек) is one of a series of fortifications built in Oreshek (now known as Shlisselburg)...
census). The ShlisselburgFortress and the town center are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city was founded in 1323 with a wooden fortress named Oreshek...
transferred to the fortress of Shlisselburg (1756) where he was still more rigorously guarded, not even the commandant of the fortress knowing the true...
the Special Presence of the Ruling Senate. He was executed in the ShlisselburgFortress. Pomper, Philip. Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution...
was arrested on March 1, 1887. On May 8, he was executed at the ShlisselburgFortress, one week before his 22nd birthday. Pomper, Philip. Lenin's Brother:...
Vasily Generalov, Vasili Osipanov, and Petr Shevyrev – were hanged at Shlisselburg. Aleksandr's execution drove his younger brother Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov...
Petersburg and imprisoned for life. In April 1794, he died at the ShlisselburgFortress. Description by Russian historian Prozitelev: Tall, handsome, slender...
in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersberg, Russia, in 1851. Three years later, he transferred to ShlisselburgFortress near St. Petersberg for...
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to free the former Russian Emperor Ivan VI Antonovich from the ShlisselburgFortress (1764). As the president of the Free Economic Society, he was also...
consort Catherine I on the throne, Eudoxia was secretly moved to ShlisselburgFortress near St. Petersburg, where she was under strict custody as a state...
Osipanov was arrested on March 1, 1887 and later executed in the ShlisselburgFortress. Pomper, Philip. Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution...
the Kara katorga, then Alekseyevsky ravelin in 1882, and later Shlisselburgfortress in 1884. He soon became mentally ill and was finally transferred...
revolutionary, Ordzhonikidze was sentenced to three years at the ShlisselburgFortress prison. Late in 1915 he was sentenced to permanent exile in the...
deposed empress Eudoxia as a threat, so she secretly moved her to ShlisselburgFortress near St. Petersburg to be put in a secret prison under strict custody...
18 years were to pass before her son, Ivan VI, was murdered in ShlisselburgFortress on 16 July 1764, and her husband, Anthony Ulrich, died in Kholmogory...
sentence was subsequently commuted and Figner was imprisoned in the ShlisselburgFortress for 20 years before being sent into internal exile. Figner gained...
attempted but ultimately unsuccessful rescue of Ivan VI of Russia at ShlisselburgFortress during the reign of Catherine the Great. Ivan VI had been Emperor...
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser (Russian: Ме́ер Абра́мович Трили́ссер; born Meier Abramovich Trilisser) (1 April 1883 – 2 February 1940), also known by the...
Mykola Ivanovych Hulak (25 May 1821, Warsaw – 8 June 1899) was a Ukrainian political and cultural activist, journalist, scientist, interpreter, lawyer...
years later, without a formal trial, he was incarcerated in the ShlisselburgFortress for 15 years. Much of his printed material was pulped, including...
custody and accused of having assisted his escape. She was imprisoned in Shlisselburg and then placed under house arrest in Saint Petersburg. She was released...
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