The Spasskaya Tower. Kremlin

The Spasskaya (Frolovskaya) Tower is one of the 20 Moscow Kremlin towers overlooking Red Square, built in 1491 by Pietro Antonio Solari. Travel card, tower gates serve as the front entrance to the Kremlin. The first name comes from the icons of the Savior located on both sides above the gates (one icon has been restored), the second name comes from the nearby Church of Frol and Lavra. The height of the tower to the star is 67.3 m, with a star - 71 m. In the upper part of the tower, in its hip part, which was designed and built by the craftsman Bazhen Ogurtsov, the main clock of the entire state was placed. Later, during the reign of Peter the Great, they were replaced by a huge Dutch clock, equipped with music and adorned with a twelve o'clock dial. However, they were spoiled by a fire in 1737. The modern chimes, for which the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin is so famous today, were installed in 1851 by the Butenop brothers. Later they were modernized and restored.