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NABATNAYA 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

Nabatnaya Tower

This tower, also called the Alarm Tower, was built in 1495. It takes its name from the tocsin that warned of imminent danger. The tower stands on the slope of a hill and affords a good view to the south. Guards were on duty day and night, inspecting the roads. Seeing a fire or smoke, which meant enemy detachments were approaching, the guards would sound the tocsin so that people from nearby villages could hide in the citadel.

In 1771 there was a revolt in Moscow known as the Plague Rebellion. The insurgents sounded the tocsin, calling people to come to the Kremlin. After the rebellion was put down, Empress Catherine the Great, who never learned the names of those who sounded the tocsin, ordered that the bell’s tongue be ripped out.

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