The Peter and Paul Fortress - 2 Hello, everybody again! :) I listened this text and wrote it. Listening is my weakest skill, and this text contains mistakes. I listened it many-many times, but I'm not sure I understood everything correctly. Can you specify me on my mistakes? (you can listen to the original here: http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/en/audioguide/2/) The Peter and Paul Cathedral, story means, is tallest building in St.Petersburg. It is one hundred twenty two and half meters tall and the elegant spire is crowned by angel with the cross. It soars above the city and is the keeper of St.Petersburg. There is believed that so long the angel soars above the city, St.Petersburg will be safe. Even during the lengthy blockade the angel remained there. It was not taken down from the spare but was cover with a camouflage net. Thus St.Petersburg is only capital in the world that is not surrendered to the enemy. And the city was not captured. Nevertheless the fortress last its military properties rather quickly. The Swedes retreated and St.Petersburg was not longer under threat. Gradually the fortress standing a political prison, a kind of Russian Bastille, the most terrible political prison Russia. No escape from it, from this prison and so set dwellers us to say at there only three roads from Peter and Paul fortress – hard labor, the cemetery or mental hospital. Inside the prison were Decembrists, Petrashevsts and even members of the provisional Russian government for a kept. The first prisoner of the Peter and Paul fortress ever was the Prince Alexey, Peter`s poor son. Now within the fortress is museum and its dark walls don`t seem quite of gloomy the people anymore. On a beach in front of the bastions people of St.Petersburg sunbathing and jokingly call self prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Its ones of reigning silhouette has became one of the main symbols of the city St.Petersburg.