🏛 Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell

A 16th-century bronze cannon weighing about 40 tonnes and the world's largest bell, with a broken-off edge.

The Tsar Cannon was cast in 1586 by the master Andrei Chokhov on the orders of Tsar Feodor Ivanovich.
The cannon's calibre is 890 mm and its weight about 39.3 tonnes.
The cannon was never fired: during restoration in the 1980s it turned out that the barrel had never been cleaned after casting.
The cast-iron carriage and cannonballs were made in the 19th century and are purely decorative: each ball weighs almost 2 tonnes.
The Tsar Bell was cast in 1735 by decree of Anna Ioannovna; Ivan Motorin began the work, and his son Mikhail finished it.
The bell weighs 202 tonnes and has a diameter of 6.6 m, and it was never used for its purpose.
In the fire of 1737 the bell cracked and a piece weighing 11.5 tonnes broke off.
The bell lay in the casting pit for about a century; in 1836 it was raised to a design by Auguste de Montferrand and set on a pedestal.