Voskresenskaya Bashnya Kazanskogo Kremlya, Kazan, Respublika Tatarstan, Russia

Voskresenskaya Bashnya Kazanskogo Kremlya, Kazan, Respublika Tatarstan, Russia  

The Resurrection Tower of the Kazan Kremlin is one of eight, “surviving” to the present day – today it looks different than at the time of its appearance. It has become lower, it is crowned by a sloping roof made of metal. The building was erected in the middle of the XVI century. known architects Yakov Postnik and Ivan Shiryaev – the very ones that built the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed . The tower was named in honor of the Church of the Resurrection of the Lord, which in those days operated in the upper tier. A little over a century ago the church superstructure was demolished, and the tower itself was rebuilt.

In the times of the Kazan Khanate in place of the Resurrection was the Water Tower. As it turned out, as a result of excavations, two paths led to the tower from the Khan’s palace. In the middle of the XVI century. During the storming of the Kremlin by the Russian army, the building was partially destroyed, along with a significant part of the fortress walls. By the royal order in its place was raised a new, stone tower. At one time it housed a military prison, because of what the tower was called Ostrozhnaya. Inside it everything was preserved in the form in which it was four and a half centuries ago. In 2003, the passage laid in the second half of the 19th century was dismantled, and the Resurrection Tower again became a travel card.

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