Russia · 18th century
Bip Fortress ranks #6,197 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #113 of the 145 mapped in Russia. Founded 1795, it is older than 12% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,290 times in the last 60 days, more than 57% of the atlas. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Saint Petersburg, 31 km away. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
Mariental, informally also Bibs or Bip, is a two-storey castle (pentagonal in plan) with two towers (oval in plan) and an inner courtyard at the confluence of the Slavyanka and Tyzva rivers in the southern part of Pavlovsk. Around it, entirely according to the rules of the bastion system, earthen fortifications were laid out (bastions, ravelins, lunettes, flèches). It is regarded as an architectural whim of Paul I.
Machine-translated from “Бип (крепость)” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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