Pavel I Fort

Fort Paul I in Kronstadt is the largest fort of the fortress of the second half of the 19th century and an object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of federal significance. Since 2001, it has had the status of a cultural monument of Russia, and is also included in the list of World Heritage sites. In 1923, an explosion occurred at the fort, as a result of which windows were broken in nearby cities, and the attempt to extinguish the fire went down in the history of the Baltic Fleet as heroic but unsuccessful. Emperor Nicholas I highly appreciated the granite facing of the structure, noting that the workers "throw stones like beads."