Kronstadt
Kronstadt, that grim and forbidding looking pile of granite that rises out of the Baltic Sea and appears, by its very look, to give the mute but stem warning "Sheer Off" to all would-be intr... Read allKronstadt, that grim and forbidding looking pile of granite that rises out of the Baltic Sea and appears, by its very look, to give the mute but stem warning "Sheer Off" to all would-be intruders. Yes, this fortress was indeed a formidable and apparently impregnable guard to the ... Read allKronstadt, that grim and forbidding looking pile of granite that rises out of the Baltic Sea and appears, by its very look, to give the mute but stem warning "Sheer Off" to all would-be intruders. Yes, this fortress was indeed a formidable and apparently impregnable guard to the capital of Russia, and had always defied the wiles of the ever-watchful and eagle-eyed spy... Read all