Designed by a Polish-born Russian General Konstanty Wieliczko, the fort was constructed in 1904 as part of the outer ring of defences of the Warsaw Fortress.
The fort was almost finished in 1909, when - in the effect of the lost Russo-Japanese War a set of military reforms was passed by the Russian government.
Consequently the fort did not play any part in World War I and in 1915 was captured by the Imperial German Army without a fight.
The Germans re-militarised the construction and used its barracks as a military prison housing, among others, the soldiers of the Polish Legions following the Oath Crisis.
In 1944 the fort was captured by Soviet forces and partially blown up (all gun casemates for flanking fire and the caponiers).