Krasnyi Gorodets

Krasnyi Gorodets (also Krasny Gorodok) is a no-longer-extant fortress of the Pskov Republic on the Sinyaya River, built in 1464 to defend the border with Livonia. The fortress survived several sieges and passed from hand to hand until, finally, following the Russo-Polish War, its belonging to the Russian lands was confirmed by the Treaty of Andrusovo. By the end of the 18th century the fortress had fallen into severe disrepair and was never restored. The site of the fortress is protected by the state as an archaeological monument and is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. The settlement around the fortress bears the name Krasnogorodsk in its honour.

Machine-translated from “Красный Городец” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Krasnyi Gorodets ranks #7,897 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #145 of the 145 mapped in Russia. Founded 1464, it is older than 48% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 455 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.

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