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TSARSKAYA TOWER |

| Moscow Kremlin

Administrative buildings | The Kremlin Towers | The Kremlin Cathedrals | Squares and Gardens

Borovitskaya Tower

Vodovzvodnaya Tower

Blagoveshenskaya Tower

Tainitskaya Tower

Pervaya Bezymyannaya Tower

Vtoraya Bezymyannaya Tower

Petrovskaya Tower

Beklemishevskaya Tower

Konstantino-Yeleninskaya Tower

Nabatnaya Tower

Tsarskaya Tower

Spasskaya Tower

Senatskaya Tower

Nikolskaya Tower

Uglovaya Arsenalnaya Tower

Srednyaya Arsenalnaya Tower

Troitskaya Tower

Kutafya Tower

Komendantskaya Tower

Oruzheinaya Tower

Tsarskaya Tower

This youngest and smallest tower of all was built in 1680. Strictly speaking, it is not a tower; it is rather a stone terem, a tent-shaped chamber placed directly on the wall. Previously, there was a small wooden turret, from which, according to legend, Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) liked to watch what was happening on Red Square. Hence the name, the Tsar’s Tower. The white stone bands round the posts, the tall corner pyramids with gilt flags and the tent roof topped with an elegant gilt weather vane make the tower look like something from a fairytale.

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