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Kropotkin's Escape[edit]

"The first person to escape from the fortress prison was the anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin in 1876." I have removed this sentence as it seems to be a misreading of the source [1] which refers to his escape from the House of Detention in Saint Petersburg, a minimal-security prison to which he was transferred to from the Peter and Paul Fortress due to his poor health. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoker92 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Shouldn't someone perhaps add that HIM The Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia has also been buried there more recently? I think this would be a good addition.

Aditional prisoners[edit]

I seem to remember that Trotsky was also held in a cell in the fortress. Maelli (talk) 15:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Czar Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740. Through the early 1920s, it was used as a prison and execution ground by the Bolshevik government. Since then, it has been adapted as the central and most important part of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, which occupies most of the fortress building save the structure occupied by the Saint Petersburg Mint.Photograph: Andrew Shiva

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Poor wording for period of use as a prison[edit]

Perhaps we should change the wording for the period when the fortress was used as a prison ("Between the first half of the 1700s and early 1920s"). I had trouble understanding it, and there appear to be better representations of this range in the history section of the article (i.e. "From around 1720"). TheQWERTYCoder (talk) 23:17, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]