It was built in the 15th century. The Moscow Kremlin is the crown of power of Russia
The Moscow Kremlin is the main attraction of the city. Getting there is quite easy. There are several metro stations, from which you can walk to the Kremlin. The Alexandrovsky Sad station will take you, as you can easily guess, straight to the Alexandrovsky Garden. The Kutafya Tower will already be visible there, where they sell tickets to the Kremlin and to the Armory Chamber. You can also go to the metro station. Library named after IN AND. Lenin. In this case, the Kutafya Tower will be visible across the road. The stations Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Kitai-Gorod will take you to Red Square, but from different sides. The first is from the State Historical Museum, the second - from the side. You can also get off at Okhotny Ryad - if you want to stroll along the shopping row of the same name. Just be prepared for unusual prices)).
About prices for the Kremlin museums. A visit to the Kremlin is not a cheap pleasure. An hour and a half visit to – will cost 700 rubles, – 500 rubles, a walk around with inspection – 500 rubles. For more information about museums and some nuances about visiting them that you should know, see the links.
The Kremlin is called not only the walls with towers, as some people think, but also everything that is located inside it. Outside the walls on the ground of the Moscow Kremlin there are cathedrals and squares, palaces and museums. This summer on Cathedral Square every Saturday at 12:00 the Kremlin regiment shows its skills. If I manage to escape to the Kremlin, I will write about it.
History of the Moscow Kremlin.
The word “Kremlin” is very ancient. The Kremlin or Detinets in Rus' was the name given to the fortified part in the center of the city, in other words, a fortress. In the old days, times were different. It happened that Russian cities were attacked by countless enemy forces. That’s when the city’s residents gathered under the protection of their Kremlin. The old and young took refuge behind its powerful walls, and those who could hold weapons in their hands defended themselves from enemies from the walls of the Kremlin.
The first settlement on the site of the Kremlin arose approximately 4,000 years ago. Archaeologists have established this. Shards of clay pots, stone axes and flint arrowheads were found here. These things were once used by ancient settlers.
The location for the construction of the Kremlin was not chosen by chance. The Kremlin was built on high hill, surrounded on two sides by rivers: the Moscow River and the Neglinnaya. The high location of the Kremlin made it possible to spot enemies from a greater distance, and the rivers served as a natural barrier in their path.
Initially the Kremlin was wooden. An earthen rampart was built around its walls for greater reliability. The remains of these fortifications were discovered during construction work already in our time.
It is known that the first wooden walls on the site of the Kremlin were built in 1156 by order of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. This data was preserved in ancient chronicles. At the beginning of the 14th century, Ivan Kalita began to rule the city. In ancient Rus', a kalyta was a money bag. The prince was so nicknamed because he accumulated great wealth and always carried a small bag of money with him. Prince Kalita decided to decorate and strengthen his city. He ordered the construction of new walls for the Kremlin. They were cut down from strong oak trunks, so thick that you couldn’t wrap your arms around them.
Under the next ruler of Moscow, Dmitry Donskoy, the Kremlin had other walls built - stone ones. Stone craftsmen from all over the area were gathered to Moscow. And in 1367 they got to work. People worked without interruption, and soon Borovitsky Hill was surrounded by a powerful stone wall, 2 or even 3 meters thick. It was built from limestone, which was mined in quarries near Moscow near the village of Myachkovo. The Kremlin so impressed its contemporaries with the beauty of its white walls that from then on Moscow began to be called white-stone.
Prince Dmitry was a very brave man. He always fought in the forefront and it was he who led the fight against the conquerors from the Golden Horde. In 1380, his army completely defeated the army of Khan Mamai on the Kulikovo field, not far from the Don River. This battle was nicknamed Kulikovskaya, and the prince has since received the nickname Donskoy.
The white stone Kremlin stood for more than 100 years. During this time, a lot has changed. Russian lands united into one strong state. Moscow became its capital. This happened under the Moscow Prince Ivan III. From that time on, he began to be called the Grand Duke of All Rus', and historians call him “the collector of the Russian land.”
Ivan III gathered the best Russian masters and invited Aristotle Fearovanti, Antonio Solario and other famous architects from distant Italy. And now, under the leadership of Italian architects, new construction began on Borovitsky Hill. In order not to leave the city without a fortress, the builders erected a new Kremlin in parts: they dismantled a section of the old white stone wall and quickly built a new one in its place - out of brick. There was quite a lot of clay suitable for its production in the vicinity of Moscow. However, clay is a soft material. To make the brick hard, it was fired in special kilns.
Over the years of construction, Russian masters stopped treating Italian architects as strangers, and even changed their names in the Russian way. So Antonio became Anton, and the complex Italian surname was replaced by the nickname Fryazin. Our ancestors called the overseas lands Fryazhsky, and those who came from there were called Fryazin.
Built new Kremlin 10 years. The fortress was defended on both sides by rivers, and at the beginning of the 16th century. A wide ditch was dug on the third side of the Kremlin. He connected two rivers. Now the Kremlin was protected on all sides by water barriers. They were erected one after another, equipped with diversion archers for greater defensive capability. Along with the renovation of the fortress walls, the construction of such famous ones as Uspensky, Arkhangelsky and Blagoveshchensky took place.
After the crowning of the Romanov kingdom, the construction of the Kremlin began at an accelerated pace. The Filaret belfry was built next to the bell tower of Ivan the Great, Teremnaya, Poteshny palaces, Patriarchal chambers and the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles. Under Peter I, the Arsenal building was erected. But after the capital was moved to St. Petersburg, they stopped building new buildings.
During the reign of Catherine II, a number of ancient buildings and part of the southern wall were demolished for the construction of a new palace. But soon the work was canceled, according to official version due to lack of funding, unofficially due to negative public opinion. In 1776-87. The Senate building was built
During Napoleon's invasion, the Kremlin suffered enormous damage. Churches were desecrated and looted, and part of the walls, towers and buildings were blown up during the retreat. In 1816-19. Restoration work was carried out in the Kremlin. By 1917 There were 31 churches in the Kremlin.
During the October Revolution, the Kremlin was bombed. In 1918, the government of the RSFSR moved to the Senate building. Under Soviet rule, they built on the territory of the Kremlin Kremlin Palace congresses, they installed stars on the towers, put them on pedestals, and repeatedly restored the walls and structures of the Kremlin.
In 2/half 15th century Moscow State significantly strengthens and gradually annexes the Yaroslavl, Rostov, Ryazan, Tver principalities, Novgorod and Pskov. In 1480, Muscovite Rus' was finally freed from the Monogol-Tatar yoke and in the 1550s. annexes the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates with lands along the entire Volga. The borders of Russia reach the Urals.
The socio-political system of the country is also changing - it is acquiring the features of a single centralized state, headed by a sovereign hereditary monarch. The central government influences all spheres of the country's life - military, judicial, cultural, etc.
The idea of “Moscow is the third Rome” arose, which asserted the continuity of power of the Moscow princes from the Byzantine emperors and was intended to strengthen the autocracy. The unification of all northeastern Russian lands within a single state led to widespread construction activity. Particular attention was paid to Moscow, which attracted numerous craftsmen from other cities.
Under Ivan 3 in 1485-1516. new ones are being built brick walls of the Moscow Kremlin. The work was supervised by Italian masters Marco Fryazin, Pietro Antonio Solari, Aleviz. Ivan 3 sought to use the latest European fortification achievements, but the entire ensemble of walls and towers was based on original Russian traditions. The builders almost completely preserved the location of the walls erected under D. Donskoy, and also preserved the center of the Kremlin with a group of cathedrals and princely palace. The Kremlin, built from brick, became more majestic and solemn. The walls and towers became taller and more representative (the tower tents were erected in the 17th century). In the 15th century The Kremlin occupied an area of 27 hectares and had the shape of a triangle. The height of the walls ranged from 6 to 17 m, thickness - from 3 to 5 m. The corners and walls were fortified with 18 towers, somewhat protruding from the thickness of the walls. The distance between the towers was determined by the range of flanking fire from 2 adjacent towers.
The main high-rise emphasis of the Kremlin has become pillar of Ivan the Great- a bell tower, 81 m high, from the height of which you can see the surroundings at 24-30 km. The first floors were built in 1505-1508. architect Bon Fryazin. In 1600, presumably under the leadership of Fyodor Kon, the remaining floors were completed. The internal staircase of the tower has 329 steps, and the pyramidal foundation of the bell tower is almost 10 m deep. The bell tower is considered a masterpiece of Muscovite Rus' architecture of the 16th century. Next to the Ivan the Great Bell Tower there is the Assumption Belfry and Filaret's Annex.
Assumption Cathedral - the central building of the Kremlin. Its construction began back in 1472 by Moscow architects Myshkin and Krivtsov, but the almost finished building collapsed. Pskov craftsmen refused to build the cathedral, then Ivan III invited the architect and engineer Aristotle Fiorovanti from Bologna.
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The Annunciation Cathedral harmonizes well with Chamber of Facets, which was built by Pietro Antonio Solari and Mark Fryazin in 1487-1491. The two-story building consisted of two rooms: a vestibule and a main hall on the 2nd floor. The main hall had an area of approx. 500 m2 and was the largest hall in Moscow Rus' at that time. It was covered with a system of 4 cross vaults resting on a powerful square pillar in the center. The walls and vaults of the Chamber of Facets were painted with frescoes, and the white stone floor was covered with flat carvings. There were benches along the walls, and in the right corner of the entrance was the throne of the Grand Duke. The Faceted Chamber received its name from the faceted rustication with which its eastern part is lined.
The third cathedral, defining the Kremlin ensemble - Arkhangelsk(Archangel Michael), was erected by Aleviz the New in 1505-1508. It is based on a traditional composition typical of an ancient Russian temple having a cubic shape, topped with five domes. Aleviz, in the design of the facades, used Renaissance details that organically combine with native Russian forms. The cathedral has a pronounced floor-to-floor division of the facades with cornices; Corinthian pilasters are used instead of blades. The zakomars were decorated with shells, a favorite motif in Venetian architecture, and received a decorative function.
ARCHITECTURE OF MOSCOW IN THE XIV-XVII CENTURIES Russia in the 14th century Western lands were captured by Lithuania. Monasteries were of great importance in that period, becoming not only defensive, but also economic centers. The unification of lands took place around monasteries and new cities, and a number of centers began to fight for primacy. The most intense struggle in the The 14th century unfolded between Moscow and Tver. In 1273, Nevsky's son Daniil became the first independent prince of Moscow. Under him, Kolomna and Pereyaslavl were annexed to Moscow.
Moscow was first mentioned in the chronicle of 1147. The ancient Kremlin of Yuri Dolgoruky occupied less than half of the current Kremlin. Under Ivan Kalita (13041340), the old wooden walls of the Kremlin were replaced with oak ones... A. Vasnetsov. Moscow Kremlin under Ivan Kalita.
... and his grandson Dmitry Donskoy (13501389) erected a white stone Kremlin in place of the wooden one. Moscow Kremlin under Dmitry Donskoy. A. Vasnetsov.
By the end of the 15th century, Rus' freed itself from the yoke of the Golden Horde. The Moscow principality united many Russian lands. Moscow became its capital. Ivan III (14401505) needed a new residence. The Moscow Kremlin became it. Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius near Moscow.
MOSCOW KREMLIN “As the whole earth looks at the sun with a billion eyes So thoughts best people are crowding around the Kremlin." At the invitation of Ivan III, craftsmen from Pskov, Tver, and Rostov came to Moscow, but the work was supervised by Italians - “Fryazins”. Construction began in 1485. The white walls were lined with red brick, battlements and roofing were added to the walls, the Kremlin now had 18 towers with several floors, corner towers - round (3), passageways (6 of them) with archers (only one has survived - Kutafya). The Kremlin was surrounded by a ditch (35 m wide, 12 m deep) which lost its defensive significance already in the next century
Kremlin buildings
The Moscow Kremlin has 20 towers and they are all different, no two are alike. Each tower has its own name and its own history.
Assumption Cathedral The cathedral took almost five years to build (14751479). Its construction was supervised by the Italian architect and engineer Aristotle Fioravanti. The Assumption Cathedral in the city of Vladimir was taken as a model for construction. Russian princes and tsars were crowned in this cathedral.
Annunciation Cathedral The cathedral was built by unknown Pskov masters in 1484-1489. on the site of the cathedral of the same name from the second half of the 14th century. The cathedral received its final completion in 1560-1570. under Ivan the Terrible. The temple served as the home church of the great princes.
Archangel Cathedral Its construction was supervised (1505-1508) by the Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin Novy, a native of Venice. The rulers of the Moscow state, tsars, and their sons were buried in the cathedral. There are a total of 55 tombstones in the cathedral.
The Bell Tower of Ivan the Great and the Church of the Ascension were built in 1505-1508. Located on Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin. At the base of the bell tower there is a church. After the superstructure to a height of 81 m in 1600 it was the most tall building Moscow until the beginning of the 18th century. There are a total of 34 bells in the bell tower. In the old days, the royal decrees were read at the bell tower - loudly, “in the whole of Ivanovo,” as they said then.
The Faceted Chamber was built by Italian architects Mark Fryazin and Pier Antonio Solari in 1487-1491.
Customer: led. book Ivan III Material: brick, white stone cladding Function: state hall of the prince's palace Description: single-pillar chamber, square in plan, covered with four cross vaults. t t a a, k k v a a d d r r a t t n n a a i am in v p p l a a n e, p p e e r e e k k r r The chamber was part of the ensemble of the Grand Duke's palace, connected to it by open passages. Feature of the risalit (edges of masonry) on the facade
Intercession Cathedral or St. Basil's Cathedral (15551561) Architect: Barma Postnik Client: Ivan the Terrible Material: brick, white stone, glazed ceramics Semantics: votive temple in honor of the capture of Kazan Type: ensemble of a tent-roofed (and eight pillar-shaped churches; the central volume is a tent-roofed church.
NEW TRENDS IN RUSSIAN ART OF THE 16TH CENTURY In this century, especially in its second half: 1) iconographic canons are collapsing; 2) the love for decorative detailing in architecture reaches its apogee; 3) there is a convergence of religious and civil construction, which is acquiring unprecedented scope; 4) there is a process of “secularization” of art, that is, liberation from church influence. In the 16th century, Moscow acquired leading importance not only in all Russian culture (in architecture, icon painting, and decorative and applied arts). Moscow retained its leading position until the beginning of the 18th century, when the capital was moved to St. Petersburg. In the workshops of the Moscow Kremlin in the XVI-XVII centuries. The best masters, invited from all over Russia and from abroad, worked.
In the second half of the 15th century, when Moscow became political and cultural center Russian lands, the Kremlin was rebuilt with the participation of Italian architects. Its center was Cathedral Square with the Assumption Cathedral built by the architect Aristotle Fioravanti (1475-79) - the tomb of Russian metropolitans and patriarchs, the place of weddings and coronations of great princes, then tsars and emperors. Pskov craftsmen erected the Church of the Deposition of the Robe (1484-88) and the Annunciation Cathedral (1484-89) - the home church of the Moscow sovereigns. In 1505-08, the Archangel Cathedral was built - the tomb of Russian princes and tsars (before Ivan V Alekseevich). The stone sovereign palace (on the site of the modern Grand Kremlin Palace) with the Faceted Chamber (1487-91) completed the design of the western side of Cathedral Square. The Ivan the Great bell tower became the center of the Kremlin ensemble. In 1485-95, around the Kremlin, taking into account the traditions of Russian defensive architecture and the achievements of Western European fortification, the existing walls and towers were built from red brick with internal backfilling made of cobblestones and white stone on lime mortar. The Kremlin became one of the most powerful fortresses in Europe.
INSCRIPTION ABOVE THE GATES OF THE SPASSKAYA TOWER
“In the summer of July 6999 (1491), by the grace of God, this archer was made by order of John Vasilyevich, the sovereign and autocrat of all Rus' and the Grand Duke of Volodymyr and Moscow and Novgorod and Pskov and Tver and Ugra and Vyatka and Perm and Bulgaria and others in the 30th year of the state it was made by Peter Anthony Solario from the city of Mediolan (Milan - ed.).”
ARCHITECTS OF THE NEW ENSEMBLE OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN
To realize the plan of Ivan III - to turn the Kremlin into a symbol of the Russian state, a demonstration of its greatness and power - architecture was one of the most important means. And the prince turns the Kremlin into a monumental ensemble. Almost all the buildings of the Kremlin - towers, walls, buildings on the central Kremlin square - not only stand in the same places and bear the same names where they began to be built and as Ivan Kalita called them in the 30s of the 14th century, but they even look the same as they looked during the reign of Ivan III...
The prince, on the advice of “Greek Sophia,” invited architects from Italy. The first to arrive from Bologna in 1474 was Aristotle Fioravanti with his son Andrei.
The Italian architect was 58 years old at that time, and he had already gone down in Italian history as the author of palaces, fortresses and fortifications for many Italian dukes and even for the Hungarian king, as the man who moved a huge bell tower from place to place. In Bologna, Fioravanti was about to begin construction of the Palazzo del Podesta, the model of which had so delighted his compatriots. But he went far to the east to enter the history of another people - the Russians.
Aristotle was settled in the Kremlin, given enormous powers, and work began to boil. Ivan III himself understood that the white stone walls were an unreliable defender; they would not withstand cannon fire. The Kremlin should be built in brick. And the Italian first built a brick factory on the Yauza River. The bricks produced at this factory according to Fioravanti’s own recipe were unusually strong. They were narrower and longer than usual, and therefore they began to be called “Aristotelian”.
Having created the general layout of the Kremlin fortress and its center - Cathedral Square, the Italian headed the construction of the Assumption Cathedral - the main cathedral of Moscow Rus'. The temple was supposed to carry a huge “preaching” meaning; it was supposed to announce to the world the birth of a new state, and therefore it was necessary to embody the truly national character of culture. Aristotle began to become acquainted with examples of Russian architecture in Vladimir, in northern Rus', and when, after four years of work, the five-domed cathedral was ready, it captured the imagination of his contemporaries. He looked “like one stone,” and with this feeling of monolith he inspired the idea of the monolithic nature of the entire people. It cannot be considered accidental that a year after the completion of the cathedral, Ivan III refused to pay tribute to the Golden Horde.
In those same years, Pskov craftsmen, still unknown to us, were rebuilding the Annunciation Cathedral - the house church of the royal court. In the basement of this cathedral, a new Treasury Courtyard was built - the Treasury Depository, the deep white stone cellars of which lasted for three centuries. The Treasury was built by another Italian - Marco Ruffo, whose name we associate with another remarkable Kremlin building - the Chamber of Facets - the ceremonial throne room of the future Russian tsars. For the 15th century, the Chamber of Facets represents a unique creation: a hall with an area of 500 square meters, the vaults of which rest on only one central pillar.
Marco Ruffo just started this chamber. He completed the work together with the architect Pietro Antonio Solari, who arrived from Italy - one of the legendary builders of the Milan Cathedral. It was Solari who was responsible for the main engineering solution for the Faceted Chamber, which was later named so for the tetrahedral stones with which it is lined. Both architects simultaneously built the stone sovereign's palace.
One can only regret that Solari lived in Moscow so little - in 1493, three years after his arrival, he suddenly died. But even in three years he did too much and, most importantly, brought to life the plan of Ivan III: to turn the Moscow Kremlin into the most impregnable fortress in Europe. The new fortress walls, 2235 meters long, ranged in height from 5 to 19 meters. Inside the walls, the thickness of which reached from 3.5 to 6.5 meters, closed galleries were arranged for the secret movement of soldiers. To prevent enemy undermining, there were many secret passages and “rumors” from the Kremlin.
Its towers became the centers of the Kremlin's defense. The first was erected in the very middle of the wall, facing the Moscow River. It was built under the direction of the Italian master Anton Fryazin in 1485. Since there was a secret spring under the tower, they called it Tainitskaya.
After this, almost every year it is built new tower: Beklemishevskaya (Marco Ruffo), Vodovzvodnaya (Anton Fryazin), Borovitskaya, Konstantino-Eleninskaya (Pietro Antonio Solari). And finally, in 1491, two towers were erected on Red Square - Nikolskaya and Frolovskaya, - the latter would later become known to the whole world as Spasskaya (as it was named in 1658 by a royal decree in the image of the Savior of Smolensk, written above the gates of the tower in memory of the liberation by Russian troops city of Smolensk). The Spasskaya Tower became the main, main entrance to the Kremlin...
In 1494, Aleviz Fryazin (Milanets) came to Moscow. For ten years he built the stone chambers that became part of Terem Palace Kremlin. He erected both the Kremlin walls and towers along the Neglinnaya River. He also owned the main hydraulic structures of Moscow in those years: the dams on Neglinnaya and ditches along the walls of the Kremlin.
In 1504, shortly before his death, Ivan III invited another “Fryazin” to Moscow, who received the name Aleviz Fryazin the New (Venetian). He came from Bakhchisarai, where he was building a palace for the khan. Vasily III already saw the creations of the new architect. It was under him that the Venetian built eleven churches (which have not survived to this day) and the cathedral, which now serves as the decoration of the Moscow Kremlin - Arkhangelsk, designed in the best traditions of ancient Russian architecture. One feels that its creator was greatly influenced by the original Russian culture.
At the same time, in 1505-1508, the famous Ivan the Great bell tower was built. Its architect Bon-Fryazin, having erected this pillar, which later reached 81 meters, accurately calculated that this architectural vertical would dominate the entire ensemble, giving it a unique color.
The construction of the Moscow Kremlin was an outstanding event for its time. Even if we consider the beginning of the construction of the ensemble to be 1475 - the year of the foundation of the last, fourth version of the Assumption Cathedral, and the end of construction - the construction of the last Kremlin fortifications in 1516, we have to admit that all this splendor and power was created in thirty (!) years.
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Dear readers! This article was written in 2012. We constantly monitor changes in the situation in the Kremlin and, if necessary, edit the text. The last update was made in March 2019. The algorithm for purchasing tickets and access to the Kremlin remains the same.
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Summary of the article
- How to get to the Kremlin.
- Where to buy tickets to the Kremlin
- Where are the Kremlin ticket offices?
- Tickets to the Kremlin. How much are?
- Excursions to the Kremlin
All the aspirations of those who want to meet cultural heritage capitals are directed towards the Kremlin. What do you need to know in order to watch all three Kremlin components ( , ; ; ) with minimal losses?
Part one. For Russian and Russian-speaking tourists.
How to get to the Kremlin. For visitors
Attention! With the onset of the warm season (from mid-April), the queues for tickets to the Kremlin have increased! On weekends, be prepared to spend 30 minutes or more at the checkout! During the summer on Saturdays, there is a long line at the box office long before its opening, by 9 o'clock in the morning there may already be a substantial tail standing.
– Day off is Thursday. On holidays the Kremlin is usually open. But there are special events, meetings of foreign heads of state, inaugurations again. In such exceptional cases it is closed.
– works in sessions. There are four of them - at 10, 12, 14.30 and 16.30
– Opening hours of the Moscow Kremlin Museum-Reserve are from 10:00 to 17:00 in winter, from 9:30 to 18:00 in summer (from mid-May to mid-September). closes at 18:00. open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., lunch break: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The Borovitsky Gate of the Kremlin is intended for vehicles. The entrance to the Kremlin is to the left of the gate through the arch.
To get to the Borovitsky Gate you need to go from the ticket office along the road, it is shown in the photo. If you stand facing the cash register, then to the right. Borovitsky Gate of the Kremlin is NOT visible from the ticket office
In the top photo, the Borovitskaya Tower is barely visible in the distance on the left. On the way to the Borovitskaya Tower you will pass by the recently erected monument to Emperor Alexander I.
The monument to Tsar Alexander I was erected in the Alexander Garden between the Commandant (pictured) and Armory towers
When entering the Borovitsky Gate you need to present admission ticket to the Kremlin or the Armory Chamber and undergo inspection.
Officers at the entrance to the Kremlin through the Borovitsky Gate will ask you to open your bags and lay out all the contents of your pockets on the table. Be sure to inquire about the availability of tickets.
You will be asked to show your ticket either in the building (ticket to visit the Armory Chamber) or at the very end of the long building of the Armory Chamber. There you need to present a ticket to the Kremlin territory.
You can enter the Kremlin through the Trinity Gate
The Trinity Gate is located in the Alexander Garden, in the Trinity Tower, which is connected by a bridge to the Kutafya Tower. Ticket control and inspection is carried out at the Kutafya Tower.
The photo shows the Kutafya Tower (left), Trinity Tower (right). They are connected by the Trinity Bridge. After inspection by officers of the Kremlin commandant's office (the procedure is the same as at an airport), visitors enter the Kremlin through the Trinity Gate. Metal detectors are very sensitive. Be prepared to empty all your change from your pockets.
At the bottom, at the stairs, you need to present a ticket to the territory of the Kremlin or the Armory Chamber.
At the bottom of the stairs there is a lone ticket inspector checking the availability of tickets for those wishing to visit the Kremlin. (Taken on a weekday afternoon in the fall).
Here are the diagrams for clarity.
– You cannot enter the Kremlin with large bags, backpacks, or suitcases. These things are left in a storage room near the Kutafya Tower of the Kremlin. (Water will not be taken into the storage room; take bottles with you to the Kremlin). Handbags, which sometimes come in quite large sizes, can be carried. It is prohibited to bring ANY weapons into the Kremlin, including gas cans and pocket knives. Professional photo and video shooting on the territory of the Kremlin is prohibited.
Entrance to the Kremlin with luggage - bags and backpacks
ENTRANCE TO THE KREMLIN WITH BACKPACKS is sometimes allowed, sometimes prohibited. It is better to leave a large backpack in a storage room under the Kutafya Tower. It works from 10 to 18. Lunch breaks are from 11:00 to 11:30 and from 15:30 to 16:00.
Luggage storage is to the left of the stairs. The Kutafya Tower is visible at the top.
Details about the operation of the storage room can be found on the official Kremlin website. http://www.kreml.ru/visit-to-kremlin/ticket-prices/kamera-khraneniya1/
When is the best time to visit the Kremlin?
If you want to see the Kremlin in the morning and buy tickets for a 10-hour show (the museum's ticket office opens half an hour before the Kremlin opens), in the summer it is better to come early. On weekday mornings at 9.30 am the queue is usually small. Sometimes it’s not there at all. On weekends, people gather early in the morning. In the summer at 11 o'clock, there is a decent crowd at the Kremlin ticket office. I remind you once again that in the summer on Saturdays when the guard of honor ceremony takes place, The line at the cash register is very long even in the morning .
Not the longest line at the ticket office of the Moscow Kremlin museums Upon entering the museum, you will be subject to a serious search carried out by the Kremlin Commandant's Office and passage through very sensitive metal detectors. There is a queue at the Borovitsky Gate in the morning: from 10 to 11 and around 12 and 14 o’clock - people gather to get into the Armory Chamber at 12 or 14.30 and at
The best time to explore the Kremlin on your own
General advice. During the warm season, weekends and holiday It’s better to come to the Kremlin ticket office early. But if possible, go to the Kremlin in WEEKDAY day. The most best time to visit the Kremlin – afternoon. Around 2 p.m. Schoolchildren visit the Kremlin in the morning excursion groups. Plan to visit the Armory at 4:30 p.m. In the second half weekday there is a high chance that you will end up in Diamond fund.
It often happens that all tickets in already sold. Then at the cash registers there is a sign like this:
Tickets for evening sessions run out very quickly at the box office! The ideal option is to go to the Kremlin ticket office in the Alexander Garden around 2 p.m. Buy a ticket to visit the Kremlin territory. Maybe they will even sell you a ticket to the Armory Chamber and the Diamond Fund. Although, until recently, tickets to the Armory were sold only 40 minutes before the start of the show.
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Let me remind you that some frequently asked questions are answered in a separate publication (comments to it are still open, if you have any questions, ask, we will try to answer). I hope that the article will help you get into the Kremlin.
Dear Muscovites and guests of the capital! Before entering the Kremlin, we strongly recommend that you resolve technical issues using, excuse me, the toilet in the Alexander Garden. On the territory of the Kremlin there is a nanotech toilet with an eternal queue. There is also a toilet in the Armory building, but you can’t get there from the street without a ticket. Therefore, we repeat again - the optimal solution technical problems located in the Alexander Garden opposite the Kremlin ticket office.
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