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{{other uses|Rabbit Island (disambiguation)}}
[[Image:Zayachy island.png|thumb|300px|right|Zayachy Island]]
[[File:RUS-2016-Aerial-SPB-Peter and Paul Fortress 02.jpg|thumb|300px|Aerial view of Zayachy island and the [[w:Peter and Paul Fortress|Peter and Paul Fortress]]
'''Zayachy Island'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Peter-Paul-Fortress|title = Peter-Paul Fortress | fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia}}</ref> ([[Russian language|Russian]] Заячий остров, literally ''Hare Island'') is an island in the [[Neva River]] in [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]]. It is separated by the [[Kronverksky Strait]] from [[Petrogradsky Island]] to the north, to which it is connected by the Kronverksky and Ioannovsky bridges.<ref name="spenc">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bondarchuk |first=E. A. |author2=Yudin, P. Y. |encyclopedia=Saint Peterburg Encyclopaedia |title=Hare Island |url=http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2803998750 |accessdate=2009-06-19 }}</ref>
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The island is described as offering picturesque views of central St Petersburg (including the [[Winter Palace]] and [[Vasilyevsky Island]]) across the [[Neva River]].<ref>{{cite news | first=Ayano | last=Hodouchi | title=Fantasy Island | date=2009-06-10 | url=http://mnweekly.ru/business/20090610/55379707.html | work=Moscow News | accessdate=2009-06-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924125958/http://www.mnweekly.ru/business/20090610/55379707.html | archive-date=2009-09-24 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Zayachy Island is the site of [[Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg|Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral]] where many members of the [[House of Romanov]] are buried. On July 17, 1998, the remains of Czar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and his family were buried there, eighty years to the day after they were murdered by the [[Bolsheviks]].
===Massacres===
During the [[Red Terror]], the island was the site of massacres of enemies of the state. Bodies were discovered during the
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