Tourist Destinations Rather Neglected: Kremlin
by The horrors perpetrated by the Kremlin rulers, first under the patronage of the Grand Dukes, then the map and, finally, the Communist leaders have caused so much disgust that I have been curious and are not tempted to this tourist attraction today, not only impressive but also unique in the world.
Today, the Kremlin is a small inner city, in central Moscow, with an area of 27.5 hectares, surrounded by a wall of brick and stone, well preserved, with an outdoor platform, known as “Red Square”.
“Red or Beautiful?”
Contrary to popular belief stuck, not the name dates from the communist period. It is the old name of the market in front of the main entrance, Transmission over centuries, as it was originally said in Slavic, which used the same word with the meaning of “red” and “beautiful.”
As a result, translation from glory to Russian and from Russian into Romanian was not done correctly. Ancient name was “Beautiful Square”. Perhaps the communist regime agreed to do it “red” in confusion.
How beautiful was the market at the very beginning, is debatable. On the one hand, the Kremlin walls and towers are imposing cathedral in front of them is fascinating, and on the other hand small circular platform at the entrance to the cathedral, leaving a bitter taste: there were beheaded convicted.
It is a symbol of atrocity, and even times of medieval Russian rulers, who wanted to convince their eyes as people were convicted and executed.
The enclosure of the palaces and cathedrals
Tradition says that the foundation stone was laid by the Grand Kremlin Kneaz Ivan Kalita, around 1330. Since then, the chamber has developed, walls of wood burned several times, were rebuilt in brick and stone, were fortified with observation towers, and inside were built three golden domed cathedrals, three palaces that today enchant the visitor’s eye and three buildings with functional destinations.
One of the coronation cathedral was consecrated map, another is the necropolis of over fifty members of the imperial family, and the third – less impressive, but impressive as the architecture – it was the Czarina church worship and other women of the imperial family.
Mammoth giant cannon and bell
For tourists eager to discover the original monuments, houses two unique technical Kremlin. The first is “Tsar Cannon, cast in 1586 in Moscow, presenting at that time, a technical performance: length 5.34 m, 890 mm caliber, weighing 39,312 tons.
Carriage was made much later and is about the same weight. Tsar ordered the manufacture of gun to use as a destructive weapon against the Turks, but he could never be moved from Moscow.
The second curiosity is a bell, He created the order of Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great, to meet the wishes of her grandfather, Alexander I, who wanted a big bell, the sound that’s “up to hear from God. ”
Unfortunately, the sound is not never heard anywhere since the end of the casting works, tried a forced cooling, leading to cracking and, ultimately, a shard of the lower detachment.
In this state, broke with the shard, the bell is displayed today in the Kremlin. It is the largest bell ever cast in that world, weighs 216 tons, has a height of 6.14 m and diameter of 6.6 m.
For specialists, it is a very great curiosity that in the eighteenth century, could make casting a piece of that size.
From Lenin to Stalin
During Napoleon’s invasion, the French army occupied the Kremlin held between September 2 and 11 October 1812, after he retired, the Tsar ordered the destruction of the Kremlin.
On this occasion, numerous monuments of architecture and interior values were destroyed by explosions and fire. The explosions continued for three days. Fortunately, the rain has damaged the explosives and thus diminished the extent of damage. After his withdrawal Napoleaon, restoration lasted three years (1816-1819).
Although Moscow was an important center of the country in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the capital has worked in St. Petersburg, moved there by Peter the Great, in his desire to civilization europoeana Russian orientation.
After the famous revolution on 12 March 1918, Moscow again became the capital of Russia, Lenin’s Kremlin residence and remained there all orders sent leaders of the Russian state, then Soviet, and now, again, a Russian.
During Stalin’s Kremlin palace interiors were damaged or destroyed, so the lack of financial resources, and of contempt for the imperial past, or at reliigios.
Russia’s bloody history
Today, the Kremlin and the market, beautiful and red, in front of him, the picturesque settlement on the river Mscova, with imposing walls and high towers at the corners continues to be a tourist attraction for those who consider that Moscow is, however, an attraction.
They are not many. For tourists, Moscow is located far, seems quite attractive and, especially, is expensive. Hotels in Moscow are more expensive than those in Paris or Madrid, where the Kremlin can not find one, but you can not complain that you do not have to visit.
Seen from outside, the Kremlin appears as a unique medieval tower dominated Spasski, one of the symbols of Moscow, but also a platform for beheading, another symbol of the bloody history of this country.
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