Everything about Korela Fortress totally explained
Korela Fortress (
Russian: Корела,
Finnish:
Käkisalmen linna,
Swedish:
Keksholms fästning), at the town of
Priozersk, was founded by the
Karelians who named the place
Käkisalmi.
It was first mentioned in a
Novgorodian chronicle of
1143 as
Korela. Indeed, archeological digs have revealed a layer belonging to the
12th century.
Swedish chronicles first reported of the settlement of
Keksholm in
1294. Until the 16th century, the fortress belonged to the
Novgorod Republic, followed by
Muscovy.
Soon after their
seizure of Korela in 1580, the Swedes rebuilt the fortress following a Western European pattern of
bastion fortifications. During the
Time of Troubles, Korela was a prize promised by
Vasily IV of Russia to
Jacob De la Gardie for
helping him fight the Poles. As a result, the fortress remained with Sweden for 100 years, until
Peter the Great recaptured it during the
Great Northern War.
In the mid-
18th century, the fortress was turned into a political prison of
Imperial Russia. Some participants of the
Decembrist Revolt (
1825) were confined there.
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