| LC control no. | sh2013002184 |
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| Topical heading | Bastions |
| See also | Architecture--Details Walls |
| Found in | Work cat.: Ti︠u︡rʹma Trubet︠s︡kogo bastiona Petropavlovskoĭ kreposti, 2008: title page (... Trubet︠s︡kogo bastiona Petropavlovskoĭ kreposti) Wikipedia, July 26, 2013 (A bastion is an angular structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of an artillery fortification. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and also the adjacent bastions. It is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. Bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defense in the age of gunpowder artillery compared with the medieval fortifications they replaced.) Sankt-Peterburg--Ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡ , May 30, 2013 (Trubet︠s︡koĭ bastion, one of the six bastions of the Petropavlovskai︠a︡ krepostʹ in Saint Petersburg; named after Prince I︠U︡.I︠U︡. Trubet︠s︡koĭ; dates from 1703) Saint Petersburg.com website, May 30, 2013 (under Buildings: Trubetskoy Bastion; located in the south-west corner of the Peter and Paul Fortress; dates from 1703, pentagonal structure; used to hold and torture Tsarevich Alexei, the disgraced son of Peter the Great, housed the torture chambers of the Secret Chancellery; in 1870-1872 a special prison building was built within it) |
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