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In the distant past , the first
settlement of the future Moscow
appeared at the place where the
Neglinnaya flows into the Moscow
River on the Borovitsky Cape . In
1147 , Prince Yuri Dolgoruky gave
his feast here . This chronicle
mention entered the history as
the year of foundation of our
capital .
Already at that time , the
settlement was surrounded by a
rampart and wooden walls . In this
place , Yuri Dolgoruky in 1156
settles the fortress , which
became the famous Moscow
Kremlin .
Fires in Moscow at that time were
not uncommon . In 1337 , almost
the entire city was burned , so by
1340 the Kremlin was surrounded
by new oak walls .
Another fire in 1354 again
destroys the Kremlin . Repeated
event occurs 10 years later . The
rulers of the city were in dire
need of solving this problem .
Dmitry Ivanovich decides to surround the
Kremlin with stone fortifications . Dense
work on the delivery of limestone begins ,
and from 1368 white stone walls have
been rising in the city . The modern
appearance of the Kremlin was formed in
the years 1485 - 1495 on the initiative of
Ivan III . In the construction was involved
a huge number of the best architects of
" All Russia ". Also on the construction of
the walls and towers of the fortress were
involved Italian masters in the
construction of fortifications . Italians at
that time were building Moscow
everywhere , but nevertheless the original
Russian designs were not killed , foreign
influence came to naught .
The first Taynitskaya tower in the
Kremlin was built in 1485 by Anton
Fryazin . Here were also provided secret
passages to the river and a well ,
providing the defenders of the fortress
with water .
In 1487 Marco Fryazin ’ s Beklemishevskaya
Round Tower occupied the southeast
corner . A little later , all the other towers
of the Kremlin were built .