Kremlin

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| Against New Threats

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The Era of Peter the Great

Before Peter the Great, it was in the Kremlin that the issue of succession to the throne was decided, the Boyar Duma held its sessions and the Church held its councils. At the beginning of the 18th century – in the words of historian Nikolai Karamzin -- Peter the Great, “this great sovereign who brought glory to Russia, stripped the Kremlin of the honor of being permanent home of the Tsars.”

After Peter the Great moved the nation’s capital to St. Petersburg, nothing was built in the Kremlin until the reign of Catherine the Great. But Moscow still played a significant role in state life. The tsars were crowned in the Kremlin’s Annunciation Cathedral and the symbols of state power were kept in the Kremlin vaults.

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| The Histiry of the Kremlin |  | The Era of Peter the Great
| The Origin of the Kremlin |  | The Second Half of the 18th Century
| The “Small Wooden Town” on Borovitsky Hill |  | 1812 and the Restoration of the Kremlin
| The Kremlin in the 13th Century |  | Construction Work in the Kremlin in the 19th Century
| A Residence Fit for Princes |  | The 20th Century: the Kremlin’s Losses
| The White Stone Kremlin of Dmitry Donskoi |  | The Most Recent History of the Ancient Kremlin
| The Kremlin in the 15th - 17th Centuries |  |

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