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      Inside the Kremlin

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Cathedral Square, the Tsar Cannon and the treasures of the Armoury Chamber, then lunch on Arbatskaya Square.

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      1. 1
        🌳 Alexander Garden
        🚪 entrance by the Kutafya Tower
        A garden along the Kremlin wall in three parts: the Eternal Flame, the Ruins Grotto and flower beds by the Manege.
        Enter through the Kutafya Tower; tickets on the Kremlin museums' website
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        Alexander Garden
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Alexander Garden
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1819–1823 to a design by Osip Bove on the site of the Neglinnaya River, which was put into an underground pipe.
        • It was named Alexander Garden in 1856 after Alexander I, under whom Moscow was rebuilt after the fire of 1812.
        • Bove built the Ruins Grotto by the Middle Arsenal Tower in 1820; its masonry includes fragments of buildings destroyed in 1812.
        • The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was opened on 8 May 1967: a soldier's remains were moved here from the 41st kilometre of Leningradskoye Shosse.
        • Guard of Honour Post No. 1 was moved from the Mausoleum to the Eternal Flame in 1997; the guard changes every hour.
        • The 1914 obelisk for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was converted in 1918 into a monument to revolutionary thinkers, and in 2013 it got its original look back.
        • The garden is divided into three parts, Upper, Middle and Lower, and stretches along the Kremlin's western wall for about 865 metres.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Kremlin Cathedral Square
        🎟 ticket · entry to the Kremlin requires a ticket
        The Kremlin's main square, with white-stone cathedrals of the 15th–16th centuries and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
        The Assumption, Annunciation and Archangel Cathedrals
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        Kremlin Cathedral Square
        © szeke · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • In 1474 the almost finished Dormition Cathedral collapsed after an earthquake, and Ivan III invited Aristotele Fioravanti from Italy.
        • Fioravanti built the new Dormition Cathedral in four years; Russian princes and tsars were crowned here.
        • The Archangel Cathedral holds 46 tombs and 54 burials, almost all the Moscow princes and tsars up to Peter I.
        • The Ivan the Great Bell Tower was erected in 1505 to a design by the Italian Bon Fryazin on the site of the Church of St John Climacus.
        • The Dormition belfry holds the working Dormition Bell, weighing more than 65 tonnes.
        • The Palace of Facets, with a throne hall resting on a single pillar, was laid down in 1487 by the Italian master Marco Fryazin.
        • In 1812 the retreating French blew up the belfry by Ivan the Great; it was restored in 1814–1815.
        • In 1990 the Kremlin, together with Red Square, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell
        🎟 ticket · on the Kremlin grounds, entry requires a ticket
        A 16th-century bronze cannon weighing about 40 tonnes and the world's largest bell, with a broken-off edge.
        A must-have photo
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        Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell
        © Gzen92 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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.
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      7. 4
        🖼 Armoury Chamber
        🎟 ticket · a separate timed ticket, not included in the Kremlin ticket
        The Kremlin's oldest treasury: crowns, thrones, armour, diplomatic gifts and state carriages.
        Fabergé eggs and royal carriages; timed entries
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        Armoury Chamber
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The first mention of the Armoury Chamber dates to 1547, in the chronicle account of Ivan the Terrible's coronation.
        • The treasury has worked as a museum since 1806, but became open to everyone only in 1918.
        • The current building was built in 1851 to a design by Konstantin Thon in the Russian-Byzantine style.
        • The Cap of Monomakh was made by Eastern craftsmen in the 13th–14th centuries.
        • Among the thrones is a Persian one, given to Boris Godunov by Shah Abbas, set with tourmalines and turquoise.
        • The oldest carriage in the collection is English, from the 16th century: with no seat for a coachman and a cabin hung on straps.
        • It holds the English summer carriage that Count Grigory Orlov gave to Catherine II.
        • Since 1967 the Diamond Fund exhibition has been on the ground floor of the building.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Grabli restaurant on the Arbat
        ул. Арбат, 1
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        Lunch on Arbatskaya Square
        🍴 A self-service restaurant on the 2nd floor at the start of the Arbat: you pick hot dishes, salads and pastries yourself. What to order: cheesecake or another homemade dessert, pastries, pumpkin cream soup.

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