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Designed to protect newly acquired lands from invading Swedes (it worked - the Swedes were kept at bay for almost three centuries and only now are able to realize their historic imperial ambitions through trendy restaurants, luxury hotels, and catering companies), the hexagonal shaped Peter and Paul Fortress lost its military significance before it was completed.
Its guns never saw any action and were put to use as a flood warning signal and the fortress housed a political prison for two hundred years.
One ticket is good for the whole kit and kaboodle. In the center of the Fortress, there is Peter and Paul's Cathedral (1727, architect D. Trezzini), which is the burial place of all Russian Emperors except Peter II and Ioann VI.
In the gardens there is an interesting and controversial monument by the local artist Shemiakin to Peter the Great. Unveiled in May 1991, the monument stirred controversy because it portrays Peter not as a majestic giant on horseback as is the norm, but as an old man with a remarkably tiny head.
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