• Spasskaya tower at night, December 2015. The Spasskaya Tower (Russian: Спасская башня, romanized: Spasskaya bashnya), also translated as the Saviour Tower...
  • The Spasskaya Tower for Kids began its story in 2013 and was specially designed by the Spasskaya Tower International Cultural Center.
  • The tower is famous for its chime clock, and it is also the largest among the 20 other Kremlin towers. The 10-storey Spasskaya Tower was built during the...
  • The Spasskaya Tower was built by an Italian architect called Pietro Antonio Solari.
  • 1 . Built in 1491 by Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari, the Spasskaya tower has historically been considered the main tower of the Moscow Kremlin .
  • Many parts of the wall and multiple towers were erected between 1485 and 1495, including the Spasskaya Tower.
  • Under the Soviet Union, Stalin replaced the imperial symbol of the two-headed eagle on top of the Spasskaya Tower with a red star, and its height with the star is...
  • The main symbol of Soviet power, the 5-ray star appeared on the Spasskaya Tower in the mid-1930s.
  • Like four other Kremlin doors, a ruby-glass Soviet star has crowned the top of the Spasskaya Tower since 1937.
  • It was treated with special reverence by the people – no one dared to go through the gate of the Spasskaya Tower on horseback; the men had to take off their hats.