Editing Kotlin Island (section)

==History==
The island is mentioned in the 13th century treaty of [[Novgorod]] with [[Hanseatic League]] and [[Gotland]], once as "Kotlign" and twice as "Kotling".<ref>K.E. Napierski. Gramoty, kasayushchiesya do snosheniy Severo-Zapadnoy Rossii s Rigoyu i Ganzeyskimi gorodami v XII, XIII, XIV veke. Arheograficheskaya komissiya. St. Petersburg, 1868 (К.Э. Напиерский, Грамоты, касающиеся до сношений Северо-Западной России с Ригою и Ганзейскими городами в XII, XIII и XIV веке. Археографическая комиссия. Санкт-Петербург, 1868) [http://history-fiction.ru/books/all/book_136/]</ref>
The city of Kronstadt was founded on Kotlin island by [[Peter the Great]], who took it from the [[Sweden|Swedes]] in 1703.<ref name=EB1911/> In March 1921, Kotlin was the site of the [[Kronstadt rebellion]], which resulted in over 11,000 casualties.<ref>Pukhov, A. S. ''Kronshtadtskii miatezh v 1921 g.'' Leningrad, OGIZ-Molodaia Gvardiia.</ref><ref>Orlando Figes, ''A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924'' (New York: Viking Press 1997), 767.</ref>

Off Kronstadt is [[Fort Alexander (Saint Petersburg)|Fort Alexander]], an artificial island that housed a research laboratory on plague and other bacterial diseases, from 1898 to 1917.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOs6EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA308 |first=Vladimir A. |last=Gorshkov-Cantacuzene |title=The Opera on the Plague |year=2024 |isbn=9798350739053 |page=308|publisher=Vladimir Gorshkov-Cantacuzene }}</ref>