🖼 Fort Konstantin and the Lighthouse Service Museum

Санкт-Петербург, Кронштадт, форт «Константин»

A 19th-century fort on a spit by the dam, with a lighthouse museum (lenses, lanterns, models) and an observation deck over the gulf.

The first wooden battery was built here in 1808 in case of an attack by the English fleet.
In 1834 Nicholas I named the fort after his son Konstantin, who became general-admiral at the age of 4.
The wall of 1858 was built of 10-tonne granite boulders and faced with 6-tonne slabs.
In 1863 the guns here were protected by armoured parapets for the first time in world practice.
In 1890 the fort was joined to Kotlin by a dam carrying a railway line.
In summer 1899 signals were sent from the fort to Fort Milyutin in experiments with wireless telegraphy.
The lighthouse museum opened in July 2017; its exhibits include the lanterns that marked the Road of Life on the Ladoga ice.

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