Architecture

Annenkrone

Address: Равелинные ворота
Area: Vyborg, Russia

Mon: 00:00–23:59
Tue: 00:00–23:59
Wed: 00:00–23:59
Thu: 00:00–23:59
Fri: 00:00–23:59
Sat: 00:00–23:59
Sun: 00:00–23:59
Hours: Open-air grounds; access is available 24 hours. Temporary restrictions may occur during restoration works.
Price: Free entry; there is no ticket office on site.
How to visit: You can walk independently through the Annenkrone fortifications and view the Ravelin Gate. The Ravelin Gate reopened to visitors after restoration.
Hours: Free entry
Hours: Good after dark
Hours: About 60–120 min

Why it is worth the detour

An early 18th-century fortification built by Peter the Great and completed by Anna of Russia.

Annenkrone is a historic fortification in Vyborg, Russia, built in the early 18th century. It is known for its unique architectural design and historical significance.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

50 m
Ravelin Gate
A traveller leaving eighteenth-century Vyborg had to pass the Friedrichshamn Gate, cross the ditch onto a detached ravelin and then go through this second stone gateway. A new highway cut through the fortifications in 1865, leaving the former military approach as a quiet pedestrian route where the old defensive choreography is still legible.
150 m
Friedrichshamn Gate
These gates once controlled the fortified road west toward Friedrichshamn, forcing travellers through successive walls, ditches and a ravelin. The surrounding trenches later acquired a darker history: after White forces captured Vyborg in April 1918, Russian civilians were among those executed near the gates.
150 m
Petrovskaya Embankment
In the sixteenth century, poorer townspeople began settling on this shore partly to escape the customs duties charged for trading inside walled Vyborg. Their improvised wooden suburb was later cleared for barracks, supply stores and powder magazines, turning a haven for duty avoidance into a tightly controlled military landscape.
350 m
Monument to Peter I in Vyborg
A bronze statue of Russian Emperor Peter I, known for its rich history of relocations.
400 m
Peter I Monogram Rock
A carved monogram and cross on this high rock traditionally mark the command position from which Peter I observed or directed the 1710 bombardment of Vyborg. The carving's personal authorship is legendary rather than proven, but the site became a focus of imperial memory and offers a direct view toward the conquered castle. ([monreposmuseum.ru](https://monreposmuseum.ru/kron-krepost-sv-anny/pamyatnik-russkomu-oboronnomu-zodchestvu-chast-vi-mezh-dvuh-stoletij/?utm_source=openai))
550 m
Krepostnoy Bridge in Vyborg
The first permanent bridge across the Krepostnoy Strait in Vyborg, connecting the historic city center with Tverdysh Island.