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Tainitsky Gardens

The gardens were named after the Tainitskaya Tower, situated in the center of the Kremlin fortifications on the Moscow River side. The Tainitsky Gardens are a part of the Kremlin that has retained more or less its original purpose. Since olden days, there has been a small garden along the Kremlin wall leading to the bank of the Moscow River.

The configuration of the Tainitsky Gardens has been altered repeatedly. They once included the Church of the Annunciation and the royal barns, where grain was stored for the royal family, and the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, first mentioned in the chronicles of the late 14th century. The Church of the Annunciation was razed in 1932, while the former site of the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, demolished in 1928, became a place for children’s New Year’s parties, held there through the mid-1960s.

Before the October Revolution, on a high hill bordering the gardens, there stood a memorial to Alexander II built on donations from the Russian public at the end of the 19th century. The complex was destroyed in 1918-1920.

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