The museum “700 Years — Landskrona, Nevskoye Ustye, Nyenskans” is a historical-archeological museum with archeological finds discovered in the course of the investigation of the Okhta river source in the early 90ths. The historical location plans helped define the area where town Nyen and fortress Nyenskans had been situated in the past, as well as approximate position of the main city sites. A number of archeological excavation made there resulted in the first finds related to the period before the governing of Peter in the territory of Krasnogvardeiskaya square and Petrozavod.

The Museum has an excavation model for those who are interested in archeologists’ work and the source of the museum collections. Here you can have a look at model German church found at the place of town Nyen, wood celler (for provisions), brick chips and small fragments of plate.

In 1300 the Swedes chose the source of the Okhta river to construct a fortress Landskrona. They found the most effective and fast way of constructing fortifications - a continuous ditch between the Okhta and the Neva was dug through. As referred to the Sweden chronicles of Erik “ there was a wall with eight towers and embrasures; the ditch was dug between two rivers, the whole army was behind”. The fortress stood there for a year only: in spring 1301 the Novgorod citizens headed by Grand Prince Andrey Alexandrovich wiped it off the map.

You can see the reconstructed armament of a Sweden knight and Russian warrior during the battle for Landskrona. Copies of Sweden and Russian maps and plans of the Baltic countries, Nyen and Nyenskans are of major interest. The diorama of the town Nyen and fortress Nyenskans was made due to rich cartographic materials and written sources.

The fortress Nyenskans took place in the source of the Okhta river in 1911 and consisted of 500 people “to defend the whole Neva under the aegis of the Sweden crown”. Small town Nyen is situated near the fortress on the opposite bank of the Okhta. In 1638 queen Kristina (1632 - 1654) gave Nyen a right to receive foreign vessels and send local vessels to the other cities to trade. In 1642 she awarded Nyen with full rights of the Sweden Kingdom. Port freedom of Nyen allowed to receive vessels from overseas and conduct domestic and international trade. From 1640 to 1645 Nyen hosted from 92 to 112 vessels. Most of them were Russian boats together with boats from Sweden and towns from the Northern Germany, Holland and England.

After St. Petersburg was founded Okhta turned into the city outskirts. The period of the XIX-XXth centuries left such archeological finds as an ink-stand, lipstick boxes, seltzer bottles, crockery and photos.


From archeological digs in the territory of Nyen.

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