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KONSTANTINO-YELENINSKAYA TOWER |

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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

Konstantino-Yeleninskaya Tower

This tower was built by the architect Pietro Antonio Solari, also known as Pyotr Fryazin, in 1490 on the site of the Timofeyevskiye Gates of the former white stone Kremlin. It was through these gates that Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoi went off to fight the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. The tower acquired its name from the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, which stood nearby. Originally the tower had a gate, a bastion and a drawbridge. In the 17th century, the passage was closed and the bastion was fitted up as a torture chamber. In 1680 a tent-shaped top was built, and in the late 18th century the bastion and bridge were destroyed, and the gate bricked up. At present one can easily see the arch of the gate and, above it, a hollow where the traditional icon had been placed, as well as traces of the vertical slits for the mechanism used to lift the bridge.

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