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family, who had lived in a house adjacent to the tower from the
Kremlin's side. The tower was renamed to Vodovzvodnaya in 1633 after the installation of a water-supplying machine inside the tower ("vodovzvodnaya" may be translated as "water-lifting"). In 1805, the Vodovzvodnaya Tower was dismantled
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on top of the
Troitskaya Tower. Prior to Soviet rule the tower had an icon of the Holy Trinity atop its outward face. Because this tower was the formal entrance for huge Communist Party Congresses the icon was totally removed rather than just plastered over as were those on the Spasskaya and
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and the crossing over the Moscow River. There was the so-called "listening" vault underneath the tower, which was used for preventing the enemy from tunneling his way to the
Kremlin. The Beklemishevskaya Tower is 46.2 metres (152 ft) in height. During the
1475:(Кремлёвские куранты) and designates official Moscow Time. The clock face has a diameter of 6 metres (20 ft). The gate of Spasskaya Tower was used to greet foreign dignitaries, and was used during formal ceremonies or processions held on Red Square.
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on the
Kremlin’s territory, that it was given its present name. The dome of the Senate can be seen from Red Square. Inside the central part of the tower there are three tiers of vaulted chambers. In 1860, the flat tower was topped with a stone tent
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Spassky Gate in Red Square to all traffic at the end of the 1990s, the Borovitsky Gate became the main vehicle passageway. Together with the star, its height is 54.05 metres (177.3 ft).
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added to the tower in the early 18th century and demolished in 1932. In the 17th century, the
Portomoyniye Gates were built nearby so that palace laundresses could go to the Portomoiny raft on the
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Nabatnaya Tower, used for notifying citizens of fires and other misfortunes in the Kremlin or on the Red Square (hence, the name Nabatnaya, which derives from the old Russian word
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Kremlin. It was named after the Church of Constantine and Helene in the Kremlin (second half of the 17th century), which would be demolished by the
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in the 16th–17th centuries. There is the
Troitsky Bridge, which is protected by the Kutafia Tower and leads to the gates of the Troitskaya Tower. There was also a
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and was purely defensive in nature: it guarded the Kremlin on the Red Square side. For a long time it remained nameless. It was only in 1787, after architect
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liked to observe what was happening on the Red Square. Hence the name, the Tsar's Tower. The white stone bands around the posts, tall corner pyramids with
2381:[The Primate of the Russian Church Consecrated the Restored Gate Icon of St. Nikolas of Mozhaisky on the Nikolskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin].
1004:), or Moskvoretskaya Tower) is a corner tower on the southeastern side of the Moscow Kremlin on the Moscow River. The tower was built in 1487-1488 by an
1923:). The tower has borne several names, including Rizopolozhenskaya, Znamenskaya, and Karetnaya. It received its current name in 1658 from the Troitskaya
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in 1867, a through-passage to the Manezhnaya Street was built as well as the arched apertures on the sides and a guard house on the south side;
1816:, i.e. "Middle Arsenal tower") is a Kremlin tower, built in 1495. It is located on the northwestern side of the Kremlin wall and overlooks the
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leading to the Moscow River (hence, the name "Taynitskaya", or "secret"). In 1770, the tower was dismantled due to the construction of the
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bridge that comes out of the West side of the Kremlin wall under the Troitskaya Tower. Initially, the Kutafya was surrounded by a
1022:, whose house had been adjacent to the tower from the Kremlin side. The Beklemishevskaya Tower was constructed for protecting the
2071:, translated as Armory Tower) was built in 1495. It was given its present name in the 19th century after the construction of the
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stored there exploded, and was rebuilt in the 17th century. In 1770, the tower was taken apart to clear the site for the
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on 30 July 1714. The sound from this bell served as a signal for the spontaneous uprising of the Muscovites during the
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and was the only access to the city through its lift bridge, nowadays the moat around the bridge has transformed into
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bricked up the gateway and filled up the well. The Taynitskaya Tower is 38.4 metres (126 ft) in height.
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on top of the tower. Its current height with the star is 70.4 metres (231 ft). The original icon of
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