Afternoon in Soviet Prison with Tallinn Stag Weekend

In their latest endeavor of "Soviet Prison Afternoon" Tallinn Stag Weekend has planned this event especially for history aficionados who love going back into the time. Soviet Prison Afternoon includes visit to Tallinn most imposing prison, Patarei Prison. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 26, 2015 - Tallinn Stag Weekend, an event management company in Baltic region, specializing in stag does and stag weekends announced today that they will be adding a new day activity their huge catalog of endeavors: An Afternoon in Soviet Prison. Tallinn Stag Weekend has been offering their recommended and renowned services to various stag parties for about last fourteen years. They have always worked towards the goal of making their clients have memorable trip to Tallinn and enjoy to their utmost satisfaction.

Known as "The Battery" in English, Patarei prison was at first a sea fortress and later a horrifying prison.

Built by Nicholas I in early nineteenth century, Patarei sea fortress was completed in 1840. It was meant to keep sea channels from St. Petersburg safe from the adversaries. Later in year 1867, it was used as military barracks. With dawn of twentieth century, Soviet Union at peak of their power transformed Patarei sea fortress into a horrendous prison. Patarei was used as prison from 1919 to 2004. Between these 85 years, several World War II prisoners were kept here and often shot by KGB. End of Soviet regime in Estonia led Patarei prison transform from imposing prison to a cultural hub.

Harsh truth and dreadful history of Patarei prison does not deter the residents of Tallinn. Rather than transforming or revamping the prison building, denizens of Tallinn have embraced it and left it just the way it was. Since its closing in early 2000s, everything in Patarei prison is exactly the way it was. From used cotton swabs in operating room, lone shoe in corridor to books and magazines in cells of prisoners and leftover toiletries in makeshift bathrooms, everything is left just like it was. Patarei prison has not been transformed in to some museum with plaques but left has a decrepit building providing authenticity and legitimacy to the horrors happened. It is in such authentic prison and historically rich prison that Tallinn Stag Weekend will be taking any history aficionados coming to Tallinn to celebrate their stag do.

You can visit cells, climb up to the guard posts and look down to the concrete exercise corridor of prisoners. As Patarei prison has been transformed into a cultural hub, it houses sauna and a bar facing Baltic Sea. Now used for massive rave parties, it is now a cultural park, an occasional museum, ground for famous art and music festival "Patarei Kultuuritolm" and famed exhibition "The Penitentiary : Battery Project".

It is here with Tallinn Stag Weekend that individuals can roam in the gloomy corridors and feel their senses going back in time to the era of Soviet rule. It is with ever-looming historical presence of Patarei prison that people enjoy festivals, exhibitions and raves. This activity by Tallinn Stag Weekend includes guided tour, English speaking guide and return transfer in very affordable price.

Based in Tallinn, Tallinn Stag Weekend has made another milestone in their business by including Soviet Prison Afternoon. An amalgamation of past and present has made Patarei prison a must place to visit in Tallinn. Tallinn Stag Weekend has numerous satisfied clients who had enjoyed their stag weekend planned by Tallinn Stag Weekend. Visit www.tallinnstagweekend.com to let your stag do planned by experts.

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