A Little Walk Through The Moscow Kremlin

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I spent my last weekend visiting my daughter, who lives in a city near Moscow. Our plan was to visit the exhibition of Salvador Dali in the Central Exhibition Hall (Manege), but when we arrived at Manezh Square, we realized that we need to reconsider our plans. Why? Because someone really likes to sleep in the morning. There was a very large queue in the Exhibition Hall. Even the horses laughed at us.

My daughter was very upset. Me too. But who is to blame? Only yourself. So we decided to take a walk around the Kremlin. I haven't been there for more than 12 years. I was in the Kremlin with my daughter at the time. The first time I brought her to see Moscow and Red Square. Time is running fast. Now she shows me Moscow.
Over the years, there have been changes in the plan of visiting the Kremlin. Entrance is now paid. The ticket costs 700 rubles. This is about 10 euros. Increased security measures at the entrance to the Kremlin and on its territory. And I remember times when you could just go there and take a walk. There were always a lot of people. This time there was no queue at the entrance. By the way, can the coronavirus be to blame? I now realized that I had not seen tourists from China and Japan at all. And there are always a lot of them on red Square.


So, let's start our walk
The Kutafya Tower is the entrance to the Kremlin territory for ordinary mortals and tourists. On the side of it is equipped with an entrance.
On the bridge we pass to the Trinity tower and get to the territory of the Kremlin.
Everything is unchanged here. On the left is the Arsenal building, and along the walls are old guns. On my last visit, I went to the Arsenal grounds. There was a soldier at the entrance and he let me through. There were a lot of soldiers in the courtyard of the Arsenal, and an officer suddenly came up to me and said that it was forbidden to enter here and began to scold the sentry for letting me pass. I apologized and left.






I will say that on the territory of the Kremlin there are many people in uniform who keep order. They forbid you to go out on the road, start whistling and showing your hands that you need to leave the roadway. I didn't take pictures of these people. They may misunderstand.








The first thing we did was go to the Tsar-Cannon. This is a giant cannon that did not fire a single shot, a masterpiece of heavy fortress artillery of its time. The gun itself was cast in 1586, and the carriage and decorative cores were cast much later in 1859.
The diameter of the outer barrel is 1200 mm, the patterned belt around the muzzle is 1340 mm, the caliber of the gun is 890 mm, and the weight is 39,312 kg.
Why was it built? Probably for beauty and for greatness!








And we're going to the other sights of the Kremlin - the Tsar Bell that never rang.
This is a Monument of Russian foundry art of the XVIII century. The height with the bridge is 6.24 m, the diameter is 6.6 m; the weight is 202 tons. The bell was cast by order of the Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1730. In 1737, during the Trinity fire, the bell was damaged and lay in the ground for about a century.
Why did they build such a giant bell? How did you want to use it? It certainly could not be raised to the bell tower!
I think this is again Royal grandeur.











Then we took a short walk around the Cathedral Square.












We went to the Archangel Cathedral. Amazing place. The Cathedral was built in 1508. In October of the same year, Grand Duke Vasily III ordered the transfer of the relics of his ancestors to the Archangel Cathedral, indicating the rules of burial. Now in this Cathedral there are 46 tombs and 54 burials. In 1906, the tombstones were covered with bronze cases. The last burial in the Archangel Cathedral took place in 1730 of the Emperor Peter II.
It is forbidden to take photos in the Cathedral.





We also visited the Cathedral of the Annunciation, which is also prohibited photo and video shooting.
There are very picturesque walls and ceilings. A rich iconostasis. Everything is old, ancient.





Then we followed the path of the Tainitsky garden to the Spasskaya tower and came to Red Square.



































And on Red Square there was a fair! But there weren't many people. I don't know why. We also did not linger, and began to move to the exit from the Square.
In Soviet times, I never met a fair on red Square.
But there was always a long queue to Lenin's Mausoleum.






































And Marshal Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich saw us off.





But was my youngest daughter on Red Square and in the Kremlin? Usually she goes to Moscow with her mother, and I stay at home. I'll have to ask them.

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