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The Moscow Kremlin, past and present
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Time: daily from 10: 00 to 17: 00, Thursday is closed.
The Moscow Kremlin is the main attraction of the city.
It is quite easy to get to it.
There are several metro stations, leaving which you can walk to the Kremlin.
The Alexander Garden station will take you, as you can easily guess, straight to the Alexander Garden.
There you will already see the Kutafya Tower, where they sell tickets to the Kremlin and to the Armory Chamber.
You can also go to the metro station.
V. I. Lenin Library.
In this case, the Kutafya Tower will be visible across the road.
The stations Revolution Square and Kitay Gorod will take you to Red Square, only from different sides.
The first is from the State Historical Museum, the second is from the Pokrovsky Cathedral.
You can also go out on Okhotny Ryad – if you want to walk along the shopping mall of the same name.
Just be prepared for unusual prices)).
About prices to the Kremlin museums.
Visiting the Kremlin is not a cheap pleasure.
An hour and a half visit to the Armory Chamber will cost 700 rubles, the Diamond Fund 500 rubles, a walk around the Kremlin with an inspection of cathedrals 350 rubles, without cathedrals – 200 rubles.
For more information about museums and some nuances about visiting them that you should know, see the links.
The Kremlin is called not only the walls with towers, as some people think, but also everything that is located inside it.
Behind the walls on the ground of the Moscow Kremlin there are cathedrals and squares, palaces and museums.
This summer, the Kremlin Regiment shows its skills on Sobornaya Square every Saturday at 12: 00.
If I manage to escape to the Kremlin, I will write about it.
The history of the Moscow Kremlin.
The word "Kremlin" is very ancient.
The Kremlin or detinets in Russia was called a fortified part in the center of the city, in other words, a fortress.
In the old days, there were different times.
It happened that countless enemy forces attacked Russian cities.
That's when the residents of the city gathered under the protection of their Kremlin.
The old and small took refuge behind its powerful walls, and those who could hold weapons in their hands defended themselves from enemies from the walls of the Kremlin.
The Moscow Kremlin is the main attraction of Moscow
The first settlement on the site of the Kremlin appeared about 4000 years ago.
This was established by archaeologists.
Fragments of clay pots, stone axes and flint arrowheads were found here.
These things were once used by ancient settlers.
The construction site of the Kremlin was not chosen by chance.
The Kremlin is built on a high hill, surrounded on two sides by rivers: the Moscow River and the Neglinnaya River.
The high location of the Kremlin made it possible to notice the enemies from a greater distance, and the rivers served as a natural barrier in their path.
Originally, the Kremlin was made of wood.
An earthen rampart was built around its walls for greater reliability.
The remains of these fortifications were discovered during construction work in our time.
It is known that the first wooden walls on the site of the Kremlin were built in 1156 by order of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky.
These data have been preserved in ancient chronicles.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Ivan Kalita began to rule the city.
Kalita in ancient Russia was called a bag for money.
The prince was so called because he had accumulated great wealth and always carried a small bag of money with him.
Prince Kalita decided to decorate and strengthen his city.
He ordered the Kremlin to build new walls.
They were cut down from strong oak trunks, so thick that you canot even wrap your arms around them.
Under the next ruler of Moscow, Dmitry Donskoy, other stone walls were built for the Kremlin.
Stone craftsmen were gathered from all over the district to Moscow.
And in 1367.
they set to work.
People worked without a break, and soon Borovitsky Hill was surrounded by a powerful stone wall, 2 or even 3 meters thick.
It was built of limestone, which was mined in quarries near Moscow near the village of Myachkovo.
The Kremlin so impressed its contemporaries with the beauty of its white walls that since then Moscow has been called white stone.
Prince Dmitry was a very brave man.
He always fought in the first ranks and it was he who led the fight against the conquerors from the Golden Horde.
In 1380, his army defeated the army of Khan Mamai on the Kulikovo field, which is not far from the Don River.
This battle was called Kulikovskaya, and the prince has since received the nickname Donskoy.
The white stone Kremlin has stood for more than 100 years.
A lot has changed during this time.
The Russian lands have united into one strong state.
Moscow became its capital.
This happened under the Moscow Prince Ivan III.
Since then, he has been called the Grand Duke of All Russia, and historians call him "the collector of the Russian land".
Ivan III gathered the best Russian masters and invited Aristotle Fearovanti, Antonio Solario and other famous architects from faraway Italy.
And now, under the guidance of Italian architects, new construction began on Borovitsky Hill.
In order not to leave the city without a fortress, the builders erected a new Kremlin in parts: they dismantled a section of the old white stone wall and quickly built a new one in its place - from bricks.
There was quite a lot of clay suitable for its production in the vicinity of Moscow.
However, clay is a soft material.
To make the brick hard, it was fired in special furnaces.
Russian Russian craftsmen stopped treating Italian architects as strangers during the years of construction, and even their names were changed to the Russian way.
So Antonio became Anton, and the nickname Fryazin replaced the complex Italian surname.
Our ancestors called the overseas lands fryazhsky, and the natives from there fryazin.
The new Kremlin was built for 10 years.
The fortress was protected on both sides by rivers, and at the beginning of the 16th century.a wide moat was dug on the third side of the Kremlin.
It connected two rivers.
Now the Kremlin was protected from all sides by water barriers.
The towers of the Kremlin were erected one after another, they were equipped with diverting archers for greater defense capability.
Along with the renovation of the fortress walls, the construction of such famous cathedrals of the Kremlin as the Assumption, Arkhangelsk and Annunciation took place.
After the wedding to the Romanov kingdom, the construction of the Kremlin began at an accelerated pace.
The Filaret belfry was built next to the bell tower of Ivan the Great, the Teremnaya, the Funny Palaces, the Patriarchal Chambers and the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles.
Under Peter I, the Arsenal building was erected.
But after the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg, new buildings were no longer erected.
During the reign of Catherine II, a number of ancient buildings and part of the southern wall were demolished on the territory of the Kremlin for the construction of a new palace.
But soon the work was canceled, according to the official version due to lack of funding, according to the unofficial version because of the negative opinion of the public.
In 1776-87, the Senate building was built
During the invasion of Napoleon, the Kremlin was severely damaged.
Churches were desecrated, looted, and part of the walls, towers, and buildings were blown up during the retreat.
In 1816-19, restoration works were carried out in the Kremlin.
By 1917, there were 31 churches in the Kremlin.
During the October Revolution, the Kremlin was bombed.
In 1918, the government of the RSFSR moved to the Senate building.
Under the Soviet regime, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses was built on the territory of the Kremlin, stars were installed on the towers, the Tsar Cannon and the Tsar Bell were placed on pedestals, the walls and structures of the Kremlin were repeatedly restored.
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Where is the Moscow Kremlin, past and present
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Alexander Garden, Borovitskaya, Library named afterLenin, Okhotny Ryad, Revolution Square
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See also:
Towers of the Moscow Kremlin
Novospassky Monastery
Pokrovsky Cathedral - St. Basil's Cathedral
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Although I will not pass it soon, because I am all Russian in the 3rd class !
I did a doclat about him .
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