Shlisselburg

Shlisselburg is a metropolis in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, placed at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, 35 kilometers east of St. Petersburg. From 1944 to 1992, it changed into known as Petrokrepost. The fortress and the town center are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A wooden castle named Oreshek or Orekhov was constructed with the aid of Grand Prince Yury of Moscow on behalf of the Novgorod Republic in 1323. It guarded the northern processes to Novgorod and access to the Baltic Sea. The fort is located on Orekhovets Island whose name refers to nuts in Swedish in addition to in Finnish and Russian languages.

After a sequence of conflicts, a peace treaty changed into signed at Oreshek on August 12, 1323 among Sweden and Grand Prince Yury and the Novgorod Republic. This was the primary agreement at the border between Eastern and Western Christianity running thru gift-day Finland. A cutting-edge stone monument to the north of the Church of St. John inside the castle commemorates the treaty. In 1333 Novgorodians invited Lithuanian prince Narimantas to control their north-western area. Narimantas appointed his son, Alexander Narimuntovich to rule the autonomous Principality of Oreshek. In 1348 king Magnus Eriksson attacked and in short took the fort for the duration of his campaign within the area in 1348–1352.