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SREDNYAYA ARSENALNAYA TOWER |

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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

Srednyaya Arsenalnaya Tower

On the northwestern side of the Kremlin wall, which stretches along the Alexandrovsky Gardens, rises the Srednyaya Arsenalnaya Tower, built in 1495. It is situated on the site of a corner tower dating from the reign of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoi. It was given its present name, the Middle Arsenal Tower, after the Arsenal was completed in the mid-18th century. Originally it was called the Faceted Tower because of the shape of its facade. In 1680, an open lookout with a small pyramid-shaped top was added to the tower. In 1821, when the Alexandrovsky Gardens were laid out, an ancient-style grotto was built at the foot of the tower using a design by Osip Beauvais.

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