{"id":525,"date":"2014-03-07T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/red-square-the-kremlin\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:43:05","slug":"red-square-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/red-square-the-kremlin","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Kremlin Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin can be compared to Hermitage in St Petersburg, or Louvre in Paris. It&#8217;s a top landmark in Moscow.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s peep into our <a title=\"Red Square and Kremlin Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/moscow\/tours\/kremlin-tour-moscow\">Moscow Tour<\/a>\u00a0and find out\u00a0what makes the Kremlin #1 place in Russia. Here is<strong> all you need to know about Moscow Kremlin.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_80045\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"602\"  data-origwidth=\"1070\" data-origheight=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JdHO3q9oRPk?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>What is the Kremlin?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Moscow Kremlin includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4\u00a0palaces:<\/strong> Great Kremlin Palace, State Kremlin Palace, Poteshny\u00a0Palace and Terem Palace. For more palaces join us on private tours in St Petersburg, the city\u00a0is a mecca for The Grandeuse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>4\u00a0cathedrals:<\/strong> Assumption Cathedral, Annunciation Cathedral, Archangel Cathedral and\u00a0Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles in the Patriarch&#8217;s Palace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>5 squares:<\/strong> Trinity, Palace, Senate, Ivanovo and Cathedral.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total 18 buildings:<\/strong> Church Our Lady&#8217;s Nativity Church Deposition of the Robe, the Assumption Cathedral, Cathedral of the Annunciation, Archangel Cathedral, Palace of Facets, Ivan the Great Bell Ensemble, Terem Palace, Tsarina&#8217;s Golden Chamber, Upper Saviour&#8217;s Cathedral and Terem Churches, Arsenal, The Patriarch&#8217;s Palace and the Twelve Apostles, the Senate, The Fun Palace, the Grand Kremlin Palace, State Kremlin Palace, the Armoury and the Military school of the Central Executive Committee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>20\u00a0towers:<\/strong> Taynitskaya, Beklemishevskaya, Annunciation, Vodovzvodnaya, Peter Tower, Borovitskaya, First Nameless, The Second Nameless, Constantine and Helen, Nicholas, Spassky, Corner Arsenal, Nabatnaya, Senate, Middle Arsenal, Armory, Commandant, Trinity, Royal and Kutafiya.<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, the legendary\u00a0<strong>Tsar Cannon<\/strong> and <strong>Tsar Bell.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that we are lunatics and drop in every single church and cathedral on our Kremlin Tour. 80% of our tourists are fine with spending an hour or less inside the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin complex serves as the official residence of the\u00a0President\u00a0of the\u00a0Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1541\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1541\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1541 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00148-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin Moscow tour\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00148-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00148.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moscow Kremlin is the official residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Moscow Kremlin is the oldest part of the Russian capital,\u00a0and by far the largest fortress in the whole territory of Russia, as well as the largest preserved fortress in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The word\u00a0&#8220;Kremlin&#8221; is associated with the Moscow Kremlin complex. However, there is a local\u00a0Kremlin in the\u00a0cities of Kolomna, Syzran, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Astrakhan and other cities not only in Russia but also in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the definition given in the &#8220;Dictionary&#8221; by Vladimir Dal, &#8220;kremlevnik&#8221; is a coniferous forest growing on moss bogs. And the &#8220;Kremlin&#8221; is a city surrounded by ramparts, towers and battlements. Thus, the name of the Kremlin\u00a0structures comes\u00a0from the varieties of wood that was used in the\u00a0construction. Unfortunately, none of the wooden Kremlin in Russia have been preserved\u00a0but the stone structures\u00a0have, and\u00a0Moscow Kremlin is, of course, the most famous of them.<\/p>\n<p>The main symbol of Russia is located on the Borovitsky hill at a high left bank of the Moskva River.\u00a0The complex\u00a0is a triangle of irregular shape, with a total area of \u200b\u200b27.7 hectares, surrounded by a massive wall with towers.<\/p>\n<p>The south wall faces\u00a0Moscow River, the eastern looks at Red Square, and the north-western borders the Kremlin from the Alexander Garden. The Kremlin is an independent administrative unit within the Moscow and is a UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>On our tours we ask our guests what they liked more &#8211; Red Square or the Kremlin. We&#8217;ll ask you too ; )<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1542\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1542\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1542 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00141-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Capital Moscow Kremlin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00141-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00141.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moscow Tours. Kremlin Tour. Kremlin faces Red Square<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The History of Moscow Kremlin. Ancient Times<\/h2>\n<p>For more than 900 years of its history, Moscow Kremlin has been through\u00a0a lot. It is interesting that the first human settlements on the hill Borovitsky\u00a0date back to\u00a02 millennium BC. At that time the area\u00a0of the Kremlin was completely covered with dense forests, hence the name of the hill &#8211; Borovitsky (Pine wood).<\/p>\n<p>The first wooden fortifications were built on the Cathedral Square in\u00a0the VIII-III centuries BC. Have a look at the objects related\u00a0to the life of the ancient inhabitants of the Kremlin mountains in the basement of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, at\u00a0an exhibition &#8220;Archaeology of the Moscow Kremlin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Slavs\u00a0occupied the south-western portion of the\u00a0Borovitsky hill as early as the 11th century. Moscow started as\u00a0the border fortress in the XII century. The founder of Moscow &#8211; Vladimir-Suzdal Prince Yuri Dolgoruky &#8211; built the\u00a0fortress at the mouth of the river Neglinnaya, that\u00a0united two fortified centers, located on the Borovitsky hill, into one. The Fortress then took the wrong triangle between current Troitsk, Borovitskiy and Secret Gate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1543\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1543 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00146-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"Moscow Kremlin Towers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00146-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00146.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kremlin is a triangle in form<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the first &#8220;senior people&#8221; who settled in the Moscow Kremlin was\u00a0Ivan Kalita, who made the city of Moscow\u00a0the largest and strongest in the Rus. In 1331 he made the Moscow Kremlin the main part of the city, and his own personal residence.<\/p>\n<p>In the years of 1326-1327 was built Assumption Cathedral which has been\u00a0the main temple of the Moscow Kremlin since then.\u00a0In 1333 was built the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, where\u00a0later was buried Ivan Kalita, his children and grandchildren and all Russian Tsars for five centuries\u00a0till\u00a0XVIII century, when Peter I moved the capital to Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, Moscow and the Kremlin experienced numerous civil wars of the Russian princes, a huge fire and the invasion of Batiy Khan, so the wooden structures of the old Kremlin burnt over and over again. That was the reason why prince Dmitry Donskoy decided in 1365 to build the towers and the complex itself from the stone.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the XV century began an ambitious reconstruction of the Moscow Kremlin, which created the Kremlin as we now it today. After the Italian masters built new towers and walls of the Kremlin, the Moscow Kremlin was often compared to the Scaligero castle in Verona and the famous Castello Sforzesco in Milan. However, unlike these structures Kremlin became not only home to the rulers of the country, but also a center of cultural and religious life of the entire state, with\u00a0the most famous temples of Russia and the residence of the Metropolitan.<\/p>\n<p>The best views on the Kremlin are from the Big Moskvoretsky and Patriarch Bridge, must-do on our Moscow Tours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1544\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1544\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1544 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00140-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"Best time to visit Moscow is summer\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00140-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00140.jpg 1717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kremlin view from the Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Soviet Kremlin<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0Soviet\u00a0government moved from\u00a0Petrograd (present Saint Petersburg)\u00a0to Moscow on 12 March 1918.\u00a0Vladimir Lenin\u00a0selected the\u00a0Kremlin Senate\u00a0as his residence.\u00a0Joseph Stalin\u00a0also had his personal rooms in the Kremlin, and was eager to remove from his headquarters all the &#8220;relics of the Tsarist regime&#8221;. Until 1953, that is, until the death of Stalin, the complex was closed for tourists and\u00a0ordinary Muscovites.<\/p>\n<p>During the Second World War, and, more precisely, in 1941, the Kremlin became a mask: all the old buildings were stylized as ordinary houses, roofs were painted\u00a0green, gilded domes covered with dark paint, crosses removed, stars on the towers were sheathed. On the Kremlin walls were painted windows and doors of aka residential houses. In case of Nazi invasion, the main buildings and structures were planned to mine.<\/p>\n<p>In 1935, the Kremlin lost its two-headed eagles, and in 1937 five highest towers &#8211; \u00a0Spassky, Borovitskaya, St. Nicholas, Trinity and the Water Tower &#8211; got their glowing ruby \u200b\u200bstars on top. On the site of the demolished Ascension and Miracle Monastery building was erected Military School, extremely\u00a0changing the appearance of the ancient architectural complex.<\/p>\n<p>Why a symbol of Soviet power was a\u00a0five-pointed star? Lots of guesses&#8230; However, it is known it was suggester by\u00a0Leon Trotsky, who was seriously into\u00a0spirituality. He knew that the star has a very powerful energy and is one of the most powerful symbols.\u00a0The weight of each of the Kremlin stars is more than a ton.<\/p>\n<p>The stars are beautiful, but whirling stars are gorgeous!\u00a0Moscow is big, a lot of tourists come to Moscow, so it was decided that\u00a0the Kremlin stars should whirl. At the base of each star was\u00a0established a special bearing. Because of this, and in spite of considerable weight, the stars could easily rotate, turning their &#8220;face&#8221; to the wind.<\/p>\n<p>The day before the installing, the Kremlin stars were put on display in <a title=\"Gorky Park\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/moscow-gorky-park\">Gorky Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin stars were not always ruby. The first stars, established in October 1935 were from high-alloy stainless steel and red copper.\u00a0However, with time gems faded, and the stars were too big and did not fit into the architectural ensemble. In May 1937, due to 20th\u00a0anniversary of the October Revolution,\u00a0it was decided to install\u00a0new stars &#8211; ruby. This time\u00a0one more tower got its glowing star &#8211; the fifth tower &#8211;\u00a0Vodovzvodnaya. 500 square meters of ruby \u200b\u200bglass and a new selenium ruby technology resulted in what we see today, after almost 80 years of installing\u00a0new ruby stars.<\/p>\n<p>In 1955, the Moscow Kremlin re-opened its doors to ordinary visitors, and\u00a0launched the Museum of Applied Art and Life of Russia XVII century, located in the Patriarch&#8217;s Palace. The last large-scale reconstruction in the Kremlin was the erection of the Palace of Congresses in 1961 that modern architects call &#8220;Steklyashka&#8221; (a piece of broken glass) on the background\u00a0of the ancient Kremlin buildings and consider it a crime of the\u00a0Soviet power.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1545\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1545 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Moscow-Free-Tour.-Kremlin-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"Top sights in Moscow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Moscow-Free-Tour.-Kremlin-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Moscow-Free-Tour.-Kremlin.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet heritage in Moscow<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>\u00a0Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell<\/h2>\n<p>Two paradoxes of Russia: the biggest bell that never rang and the biggest cannon that never shot.<\/p>\n<p>Tsar Bell is really\u00a0the biggest bell in the world, created in the years of 1733-1735.<\/p>\n<p>A Tsar Cannon is the largest big gun on the planet\u00a0with their caliber of 890 millimeters. Gun, weighing 40 tons, never\u00a0fired a single shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1546\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1546\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1546 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/204-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"Tsar Cannon in Moscow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsar Cannon and a little girl<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>\u00a0Kremlin Wall<\/h2>\n<p>The existing\u00a0Kremlin walls\u00a0and\u00a0towers\u00a0were built by Italian masters over the years of 1485 to 1495. The irregular triangle of the Kremlin wall encloses an area of 275,000 square metres (68 acres). The overall length of Kremlin walls is 2235 metres (2444 yards), the height ranges from 5 to 19 metres, depending on the terrain. The wall&#8217;s thickness is between 3.5 and 6.5 metres.\u00a0Most likely all the towers and walls of the Kremlin were literally &#8220;permeated&#8221; by numerous secret passages and tunnels, as the main idea\u00a0of the Kremlin at that time was a fortress with high functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Tomb of the Unknown Soldier\u00a0is a\u00a0war memorial, dedicated to the\u00a0Soviet\u00a0soldiers killed during\u00a0World War II. It is located at the\u00a0Kremlin Wall\u00a0in the\u00a0Alexander Garden\u00a0in\u00a0Moscow.\u00a0&#8220;Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal&#8221;. Change of the guards is every hour in summer, every half an hour in winter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1547\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1547\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1547 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_3296-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Guard of Russia at Kremlin wall\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Changing of the Guard at Kremlin Wall in Alexander Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1548\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1548\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1548 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_3298-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"Eternal Flame at Kremlin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eternal Flame in Alexander Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Ghosts of the Moscow Kremlin<\/h2>\n<p>It is not surprising that such an ancient building with\u00a0graves, mysteries and secret rooms, is of interest not only to archaeologists, scientists and historians, but also\u00a0mystics.<\/p>\n<p>Though we do not give &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/fun-facts-moscow-ghosts\">Ghosts of Moscow<\/a>&#8221; tours (we are too scared for that), we believe\u00a0that Kremlin\u00a0could have\u00a0its own\u00a0ghosts. Thus, in the Commandant&#8217;s tower was seen a disheveled pale woman with a gun in her\u00a0hand, which allegedly was Fanny Kaplan shot by a Kremlin commandant.<\/p>\n<p>The ghost of of Ivan the Terrible for several centuries lived in the lower tier of the bell tower. The Emperor Nicholas II himself saw\u00a0the ghost of Ivan the Terrible on the eve of his coronation.<br \/>\nConstantine and Helen Tower has bad reputation &#8211; here in the XVII century was a torture chamber. Since then there were recorded the cases of\u00a0blood drops, which then disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Another ghostly inhabitant of the Moscow Kremlin, is of course, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was seen in his office in a former apartment. However,\u00a0nobody saw the spirit of Stalin since his\u00a0death after March 5, 1953.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1549\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1549\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1549 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMAG6111-1-612x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin cathedrals\" width=\"612\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMAG6111-1-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMAG6111-1.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mysterious Moscow Kremlin<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Putin and Kremlin<\/h2>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s day begins at half past eight. In the morning the president is busy\u00a0in the gym, then swimming\u00a01000 meters.<\/p>\n<p>At breakfast, Putin does not eat any delicacies, just some porridge, quail eggs, and for dessert cottage cheese with honey. Putin drinks a\u00a0cocktail of his\u00a0own production, the recipe is a secret, but we know two ingredients:\u00a0a beet and horseradish. Talking about health and nutrition, the President noted that there is no special Kremlin diet, calling such rumors a\u00a0nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Putin works\u00a0from morning until late night. During the working day, the president&#8217;s snacks are dried apricots and dates with a glass of tea that he brings in the most simple thermos. Closer to the night the president receives visitors at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. (More <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/frequently-asked-questions-moscow-russia\">facts about Putin and Russia<\/a>, if you need to know).<\/p>\n<p>President travels by plane. Together with the president in an airplane fly FSO employees who usually watch movies during flights. In presidential avia menu there is\u00a0cheese, cakes and seafood. All cutlery on board is\u00a0plastic &#8211; a measure of security, rather than saving.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow Kremlin nowadays is estimated at US $50 billion, or 1.5 trillion Russian rubles, according to a consulting group &#8220;Uphill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1550\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1550\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1550 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00114-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"All you need to know about Kremlin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00114-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC00114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spasskaya Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0ntv.ru\/novosti,\u00a0volgograd.kp.ru<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin can be compared to Hermitage in St Petersburg, or Louvre in Paris. It&#8217;s a top landmark in Moscow. 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