Babruysk fortress

The Babruysk Fortress is a ancient citadel inside the town of Babruysk, Belarus that turned into constructed among 1810 and 1836. It is one of the first-rate surviving examples of fortification structure and design inside the first half of the nineteenth century. The fortress changed into constructed inside the historic middle of the metropolis, at the confluence of the Babruyka and Berezina rivers. It changed into one of the western Russian fortresses. In 1810, Tsar Alexander I sent out his army engineer Teodor Narbutt to discover a site appropriate for constructing a fort someplace on the Dnieper, between Mogilev and Rogachev to be able to put together for the looming chance in Western Europe.

However, after his research, Narbut recommended his superiors that a greater strategic function would be at the shore of the Berezina river close to Babruysk. This choice become permitted by way of the Chief of Military Engineers, Count Carl Operman, who on the time had authority over all of Russian forts. On June 4, 1810, the Tsar issued an order for the Babruysk fortress to be constructed. Narbut needed to renounce for health reasons and become changed by using General Major Gabriel Ignatiev.