Exhibition “Petersburg. Summer 1703”

About exhibition

The exhibition, based on archaeological material, tells about life in the Neva region at the very beginning of the 18th century: about the inhabitants of these lands; about the Russian and Swedish fortresses built on the territory of Ingermanland; about the battles of the Great Northern War and the construction of the fortress of Saint Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the new capital of the Russian Empire and finally secured Russia’s Neva territories and access to the Baltic. The exhibition presents archaeological finds, items from the ethnographic collection, examples of military equipment, construction tools, as well as Russian and Swedish maps and plans of Ingermanland from the 18th century, copies of handwritten chronicle compilations and books from the 16th–18th centuries, and works of painting and graphic art. This is the second major exhibition created by the Museum of Archaeology of Saint Petersburg in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 2023 the exhibition “Archaeology of Petersburg. The Beginning” was opened.