🏛 Pyatnitsky Gate of the Kolomna Kremlin

Коломна, ул. Лазарева

A mighty 16th-century red-brick gate tower, the main ceremonial entrance to the Kolomna Kremlin.

The gate is named after the wooden Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, patroness of trade, which stood nearby in the posad.
Of the kremlin's four gate towers, only this one survives.
According to the inventory of 1578–1579, the tower held 90 arquebuses, 5,500 iron cannonballs and 7 barrels of gunpowder.
The lower tier with its separate shooting turret recalls the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
The tower's base is 14 by 22 meters; slots for the portcullis (herse) survive in the arch.
The Pyatnitskaya chapel of brick and white stone was added to the tower in the 1820s.
Legend says Marina Mniszech and the ataman Zarutsky buried a treasure under the leaf of the Pyatnitsky Gate.

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