EXTREMELY RARE LARGE RUSSIAN SHLISELBURG PRISONER's PERSONAL TAG, 1900
Extremely rare Russian Shliselburg PRISONER's personal Tag. number 66. Circa 1900s. Unusual and complicated badge.
LARGE SIZE: Badge - 110 x 85 mm (4 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches). Chain - 370 x 13 mm (14 1/2 x 1/2 inches). Weight: 82 grams.
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WIKIPEDIA: Shlisselburg is a town in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, 35 kilometers (22 mi) east of St. Petersburg. From 1944 to 1992, it was known as Petrokrepost. In 1702, during the Great Northern War, the fortress was taken by Russians under Peter the Great in an amphibious assault: 440 Swedish soldiers defended the fort for ten days before surrendering. After heavy artillery fire and 13 hours of fighting inside the fortress, the Swedish commandant finally agreed to capitulate on honorable conditions. The Swedes left the fortress with their flags, rifles and four cannons. The Russian forces numbered 12,500 men and sustained a total of 1,500 casualties, compared to 360 for the Swedes. Peter renamed the fortress to Shlisselburg, a transliteration into the Cyrillic alphabet of Schlusselburg. The name, meaning'Key-fortress' in German, which refers to Peter's perception of the fortress as the 'key to IngriA'. During Imperial times the fortress lost its military role and was used as a notorious political prison. Among its famous prisoners were Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Mikhail Bakunin and, for thirty-eight years, Walerian tukasinski. Ivan VI was murdered in the fortress in 1764, and Lenin's brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, was hanged there as well. The prison's buildings and former occupants were described in some detail in I. P. Youvatshev 's The Russian Bastille or the Schuesselburg Fortress (1909) it being informally known as the Russian Bastille. It is said that immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 the prisoners, both political and criminal, were released, and set the prison on fire, but according to Youvatshev the prison had been abolished in 1905.

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