The Beklemishevskaya Tower is a corner tower on the southeastern side of the Moscow Kremlin on the Moscow River. The Petrovskaya Tower is named after the Church of Metropolitan Peter, which was part of the mission of the Ugreshi Monastery.
Historical information
The Petrovskaya Tower is named after the Church of Metropolitan Peter, which was part of the mission of the Ugreshi Monastery located near the tower in the Kremlin.
The Petrovskaya Tower was destroyed by cannon fire during the Polish invasion in 1612 and then restored. In 1771, it was pulled down to construct the Kremlin Palace, but was rebuilt in 1783. In 1812, the tower was blown up by Napoleon’s retreating troops. In 1818, it was rebuilt by an architect Osip Beauvais.
The Petrovskaya Tower was used as a service building by the Kremlin's gardeners. Its height is 27.15 m.
The Beklemishevskaya Tower is a corner tower on the southeastern side of the Moscow Kremlin on the Moscow River. The tower was built in 1487–1488 by an Italian architect Marco Ruffo (known as Mark Fryazin in Russia).
It was named after a boyar Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev, whose house had been adjacent to the tower from the Kremlin side. The Beklemishevskaya Tower was constructed for protecting the ford and the crossing over the Moscow River. There was the so-called "listening" vault underneath the tower, which was used for preventing the enemy from tunneling his way to the Kremlin.
The Beklemishevskaya Tower is 46.2 m in height. During the October Revolution of 1917, the top of the tower was damaged by a shell. It was restored a year later by an architect I.V. Rylsky.
