The Ivan the Great Bell Tower (Russian: Колокольня Иван Великий, romanized: Kolokol'nya Ivan Velikiy) is a church tower inside the Moscow Kremlin complex. With a total height of 81 metres (266 ft), it is the tallest tower and structure of the Kremlin. It was built in 1508 on Cathedral Square for the three Russian Orthodox cathedrals, namely the Assumption (closest to the tower), the Archangel and the Annunciation, which do not have their own belfries.
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- The Ivan the Great Bell Tower today contains 22 bells. Of these, 18 small bells hang in the base and in the middle of the bell tower.
- After exploring the exhibitions, visitors can climb 137 steps to the top of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower for a spectacular view over the Kremlin and Moscow!
- The Ivan the Great Bell Tower is a kind of architectural center of the Moscow Kremlin, uniting all its buildings into a single ensemble.
- While retreating, the Napoleonic army blew up and burned many buildings, and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower suffered greatly, among others.
- Walls of the ‘Ivan the Great’ Bell Tower were painted brick-look, lending white-stone details a more impressive hue and revealing the skeleton of the building.
- Ivan, the Great Bell Tower, is called the first skyscraper of Moscow – its height is 81 meters, and because of this, it could also be used as a watchtower.
- Church of St. John the Baptist, Borovitskaya tower and Stablings prikaz (department) in the Kremlin - Fyodor Alekseyev.
- In the center of the Kremlin's Cathedral Square stands the miracle of architectural art of the 16th century, Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
- The ensemble of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower consists of three objects: the Assumption Belfry, the Bell Tower Column and the Filaretovskaya Annex.
- In 1600, in the reign of Boris Godunov, the third tier was added to the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, and its height reached 81 meters.
