Spasskaya Tower

Spasskaya Tower (Спасская башня). Built in 1491. The main gate to the Kremlin. "From the Krasnaya Ploshtchad or Red Square we enter the Kremlin by the Spasskiya Gate or Gate of the Redeemer (Спасския Ворбта), a tower-gateway 205 ft. in height, surmounted by the Russian eagle. The lower part of the tower was built by Pietro Antonio of Milan in 1491: the belfry was added by the English architect Galloway in 1626; the present clock dates from 1737".--Baedeker 1914. EE1975085p1a

Moscow

July 24th 1975
An Aeroflot flight brought us from Leningrad to Moscow. We stayed at an Intourist hotel. Sightseeing in Moscow focused on Red Square and the Kremlin. I'd always waned to see St. Basil's Cathedral since reading about it in a vintage National Geographic magazine. There was also a visit to the famous GUM (Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyy Magazin) store off Red Square. GUM was described in the West ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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