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SCHLUSSELBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHLUSSELBURG  , a

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town of
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Russia, in the
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government of St
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Petersburg, situated on
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low ground surrounded by marshes, at the issue of the
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river
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Neva from
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Lake
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Ladoga, 40 M. by steamer E. of the
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city of St Petersburg . Pop . (1897) 5285 . It was founded in 1323 by the Novgorodians, and though after-wards lost by Russia, was reconquered by
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Peter the
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Great in 1702 . It has a
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cathedral and a fortress, built on an
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island in the Neva, which is now used as a
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political
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prison .

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