Ivangorod Fortress (Votic: Jaanilidna) is a Russian medieval castle established by Ivan III in 1492 and since then grown into the town of Ivangorod.
The fortress overlooks the Narva River opposite the Narva Hermann Castle and the Estonian city of Narva.
Read more about Ivangorod Fortress: History, The Museum
Famous quotes containing the word fortress:
“a fortress against ideas and against the
Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)