In Kaliningrad, during the construction of a bridge, cannonballs from the era of Peter I and coins with the monogram of his daughter were found

Archaeologists discovered at the site of the construction of a new bridge over the Pregolya cannonballs from the time of Peter I and coins with the monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Finds made where the Friedrichsburg Fortress used to be located will be transferred to the Museum of the World Ocean. This was reported by the press service of the institution on Tuesday, April 23.

“We know that in 1697 Peter the Great visited here and studied artillery in the Friedrichsburg fortress. At the site of the fortress workshop we found stone cannonballs that were still in use at that time. So the young Russian tsar could well have loaded the fortress cannons with these cannonballs,” says Nikolai Bokovenko, head of the expedition, senior researcher at the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The museum collection will be supplemented by fragments of the city’s wooden water supply system and gutters, as well as a glazed tile with a double-headed eagle.