🖼 Koporye Fortress

Ломоносовский р-н, с. Копорье, Старосельская ул.

A medieval stone fortress of the 13th–16th centuries on the edge of the Izhora Plateau, with a gate church and a bridge over a ravine.

The first fortress at Koporye was built in 1240 by knights of the Livonian Order, and in 1241 Alexander Nevsky took and destroyed it.
A stone town was built here in 1280 by Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich, but two years later the Novgorodians destroyed it.
The present walls are a Novgorodian construction of 1297, rebuilt in the late 15th – early 16th century.
The huge breach in the south-west wall is a trace of Russian artillery in the siege of 1703, after which the Swedes surrendered.
In 1708 Peter the Great gave the fortress to Menshikov.
Fyodor Engel, head of the Interior Ministry, forbade the owner to dismantle the walls for slabs: "it is strictly forbidden to destroy such ancient buildings".
Inside are the ruins of the Transfiguration Church, which burned down in 1962, and the Zinoviev chapel-mausoleum.

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