Northern Fortress - Pechorsky Monastery

Blagoveschenskaya tower

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The walls of the monastery has 12-14 meters height and not a big thick - near to 1,5-2 meters. Because of that they were relatively easily breached by Poles under Stefan Batory command in 1581 and Swedes in 1590-th and 1703.

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