1721 , emperor peter ii ordered the foundation of a new sea fortress on an artificial sandbank near kotlins inside and continuing... painstakingly clearing historical walls. the amount of work is gigantic, say the restorers, but you can already see what the fortress will look like in the end. the lower galleries of the central artillery tower have almost been put in order; now they are working on restoring the historical layout. during soviet times, the military dismantled part of the structure, widened the old passages and created new ones, and not always carefully. the losses are now made up for with the help of ancient bricks. they are collected throughout the fort, cleaned and sorted. especially. deposits of this building material in the eastern part of the artificial island, where a now forgotten disaster occurred almost 100 years ago. in 1932, for a not very clear reason, in an artillery warehouse, in this part of the fort, a powerful explosion occurred, so strong that bricks flew to the opposite shore of the gulf of finland, to lomonosov. the eastern half-tower of the fortress and s