Oreshek, Noteburg, Shlisselburg... This fortress, when the Germans approached it in 1941, was already six centuries old, but it entered the battle and the invaders were never able to defeat it. The ancient walls, held together by centuries of Russian history and spirituality, managed to withstand the firepower of the enemy that fell upon them. This book tells about the feat of the defenders of Shlisselburg, about the heroic, but not so simple fate of the ancient fortress, about the miracles and mysteries of its history, inseparable from the history of our entire state.