Moscow Kremlin "Vodovzvodnaya and Blagoveschenskaya towers"

Moscow Kremlin "Vodovzvodnaya and Blagoveschenskaya towers"

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The Vodovzvodnaya Tower is a corner tower on the southwestern side of Kremlin, overlooking the Moskva River. The Blagoveschenskaya Tower, known in English as the Annunciation Tower, was erected in 1487-1488.

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  • Type: kremlin
  • Historical period: Late Middle Ages
  • Country: Russia
  • Scale: 1:250
  • Number of sheets: 10 sheets A4

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The Vodovzvodnaya Tower is a corner tower on the southwestern side of Kremlin, overlooking the Moskva River. It was built in 1488 by an Italian architect Antonio Gislardi (also known as Anton Fryazin).

Initially, the tower was called the Sviblova Tower after the Sviblov boyar family, who had lived in a house adjacent to the tower from the Kremlin's side. The tower was renamed to Vodovzvodnaya in 1633 after the installation of a water-supplying machine inside the tower ("vodovzvodnaya" may be translated as "water–lifting").

In 1805, the Vodovzvodnaya Tower was dismantled due to its dilapidation and built once again. In 1812, the retreating French army blew it up. The tower was restored in 1817–1819 by architect Osip Bove. Its height is 61.85 m.

The Blagoveschenskaya Tower, known in English as the Annunciation Tower, was erected in 1487-1488. At its foundation are slabs of white limestone that have survived since the time of the white stone Kremlin of the 14th century. During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the tower was used as a prison.

The name of the tower comes from the miracle-working Icon of the Annunciation, which was once kept here, and is also associated with the Church of the Annunciation added to the tower in the early 18th century and demolished in 1932.

In the 17th century, the Portomoyniye Gates were built nearby so that palace laundresses could go to the Portomoiny raft on the Moscow River to rinse porty, or underclothes. These gates were bricked up in 1813.

The height of the tower is 30.7 m (32.45 m together with the weather vane that replaced the original cross in 1932).

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