PAPER MODEL KIT CONSTANTINE AND HELEN,AND NABATNAYA IMPERIAL TOWER 1/250 OREL 84

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PAPER MODEL KIT CONSTANTINE AND HELEN,AND NABATNAYA IMPERIAL TOWER

OREL 84

Manufacturer: Orel (Ukraine)
Scale: 1/250
Material: Paper
Condition: New 
Number of sheets: 12 sheets of A4

Constantine and Helen Tower was built by Pietro Antonio Solari in 1490 on the site of the white-stone Kremlin 1366-1368 gg Timofeevskaya gate. Its name from the tower was located nearby in the Kremlin Church of Constantine and Helen. At first she was a travel and traditionally protected the ancient road connecting the Kremlin with the Great Posad (China Town) - entrances from the pier, the Great and Varskoy streets. Located next to the river, the tower had a powerful strelnitsa the branch that connects with her bridge thrown across the moat. In strelnitsa could fall in through the drawbridge. In the 1670-1680-ies. over a wide four, towers with machicolations and parapet was erected on top of a slender hip arched quadrangular base. The lower part of the complex outline of the tent is cut rumors. At the end of the XVII century., When the Great Street has lost its former importance and the role of the former defense tower co-went on there, it strelnitsa was turned into a torture chamber and called "torture." Gate towers were closed. In 1707 by order of Peter I in Constantine and Yelena tower were rastesany loopholes to install guns. In XVIII - early XIX century. It was dismantled bridge and diverter strelnitsa and gates laid. Inside Passage of the tower, ceilings barrel vault, half buried. Above the vast vaulted room of the second tier raised the upper quadrangle, open into the cavity of the tent, divided by tiers of flat wooden beams. Wall-mounted ladder, starting from the inside opening of the Kremlin, brings to the battle site. Nabatnaya TOWER - intermediate deaf eastern side of the Kremlin tower. WHO vedena in 1490-ies. Its simple rectangular volume, mashikuli finished with a parapet, in 1676-1686 gg. It was built on top of a four-sided tent, similar to the last detail with the completion of Arsenal Tower. The tower is well preserved its original form. The main purpose of the tower - Spassky tocsin bells accommodation - Fire service of the Kremlin. In 1771 Catherine II ordered to wrest language alarm bell ringing in the days of "the plague of rebellion." Speechless bell hung in the tower of more than 30 years. At the beginning of the XIX century. during repair work it was dismantled and placed in the Kremlin Arsenal, and in 1851 transferred to the Armory. The lower tier of the tower from the inside - a complex multi-chamber premises associated with the chassis walls and stairways openings. Flat slab it is separated from the second tier having a closed vault. Upper arch bushel disclosed in the cavity of the tent. The height of the tower -. 38 m TSAR'S TOWER - a small tower, which was placed directly on the wall in the 80s of the XVII century. between Spassky and Nabatnaya towers of the Kremlin. Its octagonal tent poles on the pitcher resembles common at this time of lockers porch residential stone choir. At the site of the Royal tower on the Kremlin's plans to end XVI - the beginning of XVII century. It was a four volume, low-hipped roof completed, probably wooden. Its name comes from a legend, according to which it serves as a canopy over the king's throne, where the Emperor of All Russia could with the walls of the Kremlin to watch the events that took place on Red Square. The tower is well preserved its original form. In the lower tier of it is through the archway - the continuation of the chassis walls. The height of the tower with a weather vane - 16.7 m.