🏛 Marinkina (Kolomenskaya) Tower

Коломна, ул. Лазарева

A round (twenty-sided) 16th-century tower with loopholes, one of the seven surviving towers of the kremlin.

The tower was built together with the whole stone kremlin in 1525–1531 under Vasily III.
From a distance the tower looks round, although it has twenty faces.
The tower has eight tiers: six with loopholes, a seventh with machicolations and an eighth with forked battlements.
It is also called Kolomenskaya, after the little Kolomenka River by which it stands.
According to another legend, Marina Mniszech did not die in captivity but turned into a magpie and flew out through a loophole.
Of the kremlin's 17 towers, seven have survived to this day.

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