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SENATSKAYA 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

Senatskaya Tower

This tower was built in 1491 by the architect Pietro Antonio Solari, also known as Pyotr Fryazin, and had a purely defensive function: it guarded the Kremlin on the Red Square side. For a long time it remained nameless. It was only in 1787, after architect Matvei Kazakov constructed the Senate 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 roof crowned, in turn, with a gilt weather vane.

Its height is 14.3 meters.

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