On August 16, the Old Ladoga Fortress invites you to Staraya Ladoga for the opening of a large-scale historical exposition "On Guard of Northern Borders. Ladoga in the XVI-XVIII centuries", dedicated to the role of Ladoga as a key outpost. Here, at the walls of the legendary citadel, the paths of history crossed in the XVII century. Ladoga became not only a fortress - it became a living symbol of Russia's steadfastness. In the years of the Troubles, when the very existence of the country was hanging by a thread, it was the stone walls of the fortress that took the blow of the northern invaders. And in 1617, the Stolbovsky Peace Treaty, which defined new borders and a new era, put an end to a long confrontation near Ladoga.

The exposition in the Gate Tower is an immersion into that crucial time, when every stone of the fortress remembers the rattle of cannons, and the fate of the defenders merges with the fate of the fatherland. Thanks to the model of defensive structures, the Ladoga Fortress can be seen as it was in the XVII century.