Two forts - two destinies. Great similarity - 📸- Travel notes
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Do you remember the TV game "Fort Boyard"? The team of players landed on the Fort lost in the sea and this team has to beat the ancient elder, masters of shadows, tigers and others to receive gold as a reward. So this is also a lost Fort, but not "Fort Boyard". This is Fort Alexander The first-Russian Fort Boyard.
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This Fort is interesting because it is the twin brother of the French Fort Boyard. Well, to be much more precise, it is a prototype. The official opening of the Russian version of the Fort took place in July 1845, and the French Fort was opened in 1857. Fort Boyard has dimensions: length 68 m, width-31 m. the Size of the Russian Fort exceed it so that the Boyard would fit inside it absolutely easily. For comparison: dimensions of Russian Fort Alexander I is a semi-oval 90 x 60. Interesting fact: the island on which this fortification is located is artificial. 5335 piles were driven into the bottom of the Gulf of Finland and the space between them was filled with concrete based on hydraulic lime.
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It so happened that the Fort has never been used it for its intended purpose. He never had to participate in any battle. When it was under construction, in the course was smoothbore weapons, but then progress has stepped forward and at the end of the 19th century already began to use rifled weapons. The power of the shells and the range of fire were many times more and more accurate. This large structure could be too easy a target. Its use has simply become irrelevant.
At that time, the world was shocked by the outbreak of plague. In a few years, it has spread to all continents. It was decided to create a laboratory on the territory of the Fort. In it, scientists were engaged in the development and production of vaccines against the most terrible and dangerous diseases: plague, cholera, typhoid. All employees of this laboratory lived here in complete isolation to prevent the leakage of the disease outside the Fort. Communication with the mainland was carried out by a small ship. All of this scientific activity was carried out until the October revolution. Then the laboratory was disbanded.
Everyone knows that Fort Boyard was also not used for its intended purpose and that there for many years removed the world famous TV show.
So many similarities in these marine structures and such different fates. When our boat sailed past Fort Alexander I, all the eyes of passengers in complete silence were chained to its walls . There is in it something such a powerful and ominous, attracting views.
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Location: Kotlin island, Russia. Fort Alexander I
[//]:# (!steemitworldmap 59.989477 lat 29.717883 long Russian Fort Boyard - Fort Alexander I d3scr)
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I knew the fort from TV :) But I didn't know it had a Russian brother! Everyday is a school day :)
I wouldn't like to work in such a place. I wonder if those scientists wanted to go there or they probably didn't have a choice..
They had no other choice. They made this decision voluntarily because there was an urgent need to save millions of people who would have died without these vaccines. @delishtreats, Thank you for Your visit and comment :)
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Quite interesting...how carefuly they managebsuch fort in that era...history always surprises us..
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At that time it was one of the most advanced forts. Access to the Baltic sea was very important. It was a "window to Europe":)
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Epic fort photo, with awesome surrounding spaces. Excellent capture @madlenfox
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Lovely scene, great exposure 😊
Seems very peaceful, Stunning shot!
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Very cool fort. I like that it covers the whole island so it seems to rise out of the sea. Very pretty photo of sky and sea also @madlenfox
That's what it looks like - a house rising from the waves. I'd like to see the big waves hit the walls in a storm. Surely it is very spectacular
That was a clever use for the fort during the time of the Plague @madlenfox.
I love your bottom photograph. The sky is beautiful in it. 😊
Thank you @gillianpearce ! I wanted to make a lot of new photos about the sea and that's my dream come true :)
The first thing that came to mind at once is the TV game Fort Bouyar. I loved her very much!
Наш прородитель форта Боярд. Наш появился раньше :) Я тоже любила смотреть эту игру
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