Moscow, Kremlin, Trinity Tower

With this tower, the architect Aleviz Fryazin Stary completed the construction of fortifications from the side of the Neglinnaya River, later the Alexander Garden. The tower was built in 1495-1499. The meaning of the tower for the western facade of the Kremlin is the same as the Spasskaya tower for the eastern one. The architect who added to the tower in 1685 took this into account and gave its hipped roof almost the same decoration as that of Spasskaya. The tower is six-story, with deep two-story cellars that served for defense purposes, and later in the 15th-16th centuries were used as a prison. There is evidence that there was a clock on the tower in 1585, which existed until the beginning of the 19th century, until it burned down in 1812. Recently, the clocks were installed again on the Troitskaya Tower. The tower received its modern name in 1658 from the Trinity courtyard in the Kremlin. Before that, it was called Epiphany, Znamenskaya, Karetnaya after the churches and Karetny Dvor located in the Kremlin. In 1516, the stone Trinity Bridge was built across the Neglinnaya River. The gate of the tower served as a passage to the mansions of the queen and princesses, to the court of the patriarch. Troitskaya Tower is the tallest tower in the Kremlin, its height with a star from the side of the Alexander Garden is 80 m.