PETER TOWER
1480s-90s Architect is unknown
27.15 metres high. The name is from the Church of Metropolitan Peter which belonged to the hostelry of the nearby Ugresh Monastery.
The architecture of this three-tiered tower topped by a pyramidal tent roof is interesting. The tower has hardly had a quiet life. It was destroyed by cannon fire in 1612 during the Polish-Lithuanian intervention. It was restored later, but demolished in 1771 in connection with the proposed construction of a new Kremlin palace, which never took place. Finally, it was blown up by Napoleon's soldiers as they retreated in 1812.
The Peter Tower and other Kremlin buildings destroyed in 1812 were restored by the architect Osip Bove.
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