{"id":13665,"date":"2020-02-11T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:18:31","slug":"easy-pace-russia-inside-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-inside-the-kremlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Pace Russia: A Glimpse Inside the Kremlin (Dispatch #14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 13th century, it\u2019s been inextricably linked to all of the most important historical, political and religious events in Mother Russia. The oldest part of <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-moscow-after-dark-seven-sisters\/\">Moscow<\/a>, it was the center of the Russian Orthodox Church and served as the residence of the Grand Prince of the Rus. Today, behind its 2.25km of high, red-brick walls and 20 towers, President Vladimir Putin calls all of the shots as he governs the largest country, geographically, on the planet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13654\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-2-4.jpg\" alt=\"Trinity Tower and Alexander Park, the Kremlin,\" width=\"850\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-2-4.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-2-4-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-2-4-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-2-4-768x470.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the Kremlin,\u201d Vera, our expert Moscow guide, announces in our earbuds as I, a photojournalist invited by Insight Vacations to experience its <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-prologue\/\"><em>Easy Pace Russia <\/em>journey<\/a>, along with 22 bona fide travelers are fast-tracked through the turnstiles and security scanners inside the visitor\u2019s center.<\/p>\n<p>Following the \u201cumbrella\u201d along a carriageway above well-manicured Alexander Park, we pass through the arch of Trinity Tower, one of five towers topped with a one-ton, ruby-glass star, and enter into the 68 acre-fortress, the largest of its kind in Europe, brimming with history and architectural marvels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13655\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-5.jpg\" alt=\"view of the Virgin Church and its four gilded domes behind the Kremlin's walls\" width=\"850\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-5.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-5-600x438.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-5-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-5-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The jaw dropping begins immediately as we spy the colorful, 17th century Glorification of the Virgin Church with its four gilded domes, the first of many decorative cupolas we\u2019ll spot today on this 90-minute stroll around ground-zero of Russian life and culture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13656\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-6.jpg\" alt=\"exterior view of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-6.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-6-600x166.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-6-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-6-768x212.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSitting atop Borovitsky Hill in full view of the Moscow River to the south and <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-red-square-gum\/\">Red Square<\/a> to the east,\u201d explains Vera, \u201cthe Kremlin means \u2018fortress inside a city\u2019 and it gave rise to a small settlement in the 12th century that has grown into the most populated metro area in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13657\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-7.jpg\" alt=\"concrete and glass wall of the State Kremlin Palace\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-7.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-7-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-7-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a few paces inside the Kremlin grounds we\u2019re faced with an eyesore, a piece of architecture that is completely out of place in this UNESCO World Heritage Site: the State Kremlin Palace. Originally named the Palace of Congresses when it was completed in 1961, the modern, 6,000-seat, concrete-and-glass hall was where the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union held its, well, congresses. Despite calls to send in the wrecking ball, Nikita Khrushchev\u2019s \u201cgift\u201d to the Kremlin now serves as a venue for ballet and classical and pop music concerts. Covering my eyes, I walk away as quickly as I can.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13658\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-8.jpg\" alt=\"1812 French artillery pieces lined up outside the Arsenal, the Kremlin\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-8.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-8-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-8-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The geographic and historic hub of Moscow, the Kremlin greets its visitors with a group of cannons lined up outside the Arsenal that were left behind by a beleaguered French army when Napoleon limped unceremoniously back to Paris following a bloody attempt to defeat Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812. The Arsenal, a building commissioned by Tsar Peter the Great, houses the Kremlin Regiment, President Putin\u2019s main security service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13659\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-9-10.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin Senate building\" width=\"850\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-9-10.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-9-10-600x520.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-9-10-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-9-10-768x666.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While President Donald Trump of the United States officially resides and works at the White House in Washington, D.C., and unofficially at a few of his golf resorts, the Russian Federation\u2019s President Putin resides and works out in the \u2018burbs, but occasionally conducts business inside the triangular-shaped Kremlin Senate building. \u201cBecause his motorcades caused major traffic congestion around Moscow,\u201d notes Vera, \u201ca helipad was built in the Tainitsky Garden several years ago and President Putin now flies into an out of the Kremlin as he pleases aboard his twin-turbo Mi-8 helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13660\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-11.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral of the Dormition\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-11.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-11-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-11-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most, if not all, tourists come to the Kremlin to marvel at the collection of onion-shaped domes that top three Orthodox cathedrals and a bell tower positioned around, you guessed it, Cathedral Square (Sobornaya Ploschad): the Dormition, the Archangel Michael, the Annunciation and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower. This square is the absolute star of our walking tour with its postcard-perfect scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13661\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-12-15.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral of the Dormition, Cathedral Square, with its 5 domes, frescoes and iconostases\" width=\"850\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-12-15.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-12-15-600x529.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-12-15-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-12-15-768x678.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Built several times over, the Dormition, with its six pillar-five dome design, is the oldest of this trio of cathedrals. Desecrated by French troops during the aforementioned invasion of Russia, it was the place for the coronation of the tsars. We take our sweet time to admire and take in the details of the frescoes and iconostases.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13662\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-16.jpg\" alt=\"Annunciation Cathedral at Cathedral Square\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-16.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-16-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-16-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-16-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Annunciation Cathedral, the middle born of our trio standing in Sobornaya Ploschad, is the most ornate in design with its nine, count \u2019em, nine gilded domes. Filled with restored 15th century frescoes, the cathedral hosts the \u201cTreasures and Antiquities of the Moscow Kremlin\u201d exhibition. Our group stays outside and just admires.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13663\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20.jpg\" alt=\"Archangel Michael, Cathedral Square (Sobornaya Ploschad)\" width=\"850\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20-600x744.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-17-20-826x1024.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The youngest of the Kremlin\u2019s treasured cathedrals, at only 509 years old, is Archangel Michael. Like the Dormition, it, too, is a six pillar-five dome design filled with beautiful frescoes and iconostases. Once built, Archangel Michael immediately became a royal necropolis and is the final resting place of almost all of the tsars prior to Peter the Great, including Ivan the Great.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13664\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-21-22.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan the Great Bell Tower, Cathedral Square (Sobornaya Ploschad)\" width=\"850\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-21-22.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-21-22-600x215.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-21-22-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-21-22-768x276.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Ivan, the Great Bell Tower, adjacent to the Dormition belfry, was erected in his honor. Standing 81m tall with 24 bells, it was the tallest bell tower in the country. As time passed other bell towers were erected with greater height. Today, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower is listed as the 16th tallest in the country, but it still looks like it could touch the heavens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13653\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-1.jpg\" alt=\"the Tsar Cannon located just past the Kremlin Armory\" width=\"850\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-1-600x340.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kremlin-1-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we depart the \u201cfortress within a city,\u201d I leave you with two interesting facts gleaned during this stroll around the Kremlin. First, the largest caliber cannon, the Tsar Cannon \u2014 6m long, 40 tons of weight and an 890mm barrel \u2014 has NEVER, EVER been fired because it was just too heavy to roll into battle. And, secondly, the Tsar Bell, the largest bell ever made, at more than 200 tons, has NEVER, EVER been rung. A large piece of the bell cracked off during a fire shortly after it was cast, couldn\u2019t be repaired and was, therefore, deemed useless. I guess size really does matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12951\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/St.-Petersburg_18.jpg\" alt=\"Insight Vacation's Easy Pace Russia\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/St.-Petersburg_18.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/St.-Petersburg_18-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/St.-Petersburg_18-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/St.-Petersburg_18-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go here for detailed information on Insight\u2019s six journeys to Russia, as well as more than 100 other premium and luxury-escorted itineraries around Europe<\/a>, or call toll free (888) 680-1241, or contact your travel agent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13652\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Odessa-1.jpg\" alt=\"a dish at the Odessa-Mama, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Odessa-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Odessa-1-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Odessa-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Odessa-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See you in a few hours when we put our knives and forks to the test and savor some Ukrainian dishes at a popular Muscovite restaurant that we\u2019ll file under Odessa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palladian Traveler crosses over a short bridge, passes under a stone archway and enters the largest fortress in Europe as he files his 14th dispatch from inside the Kremlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2887,2888,523,2889,2890,2857,2885,2712,174,2886,2884,2883,2891],"class_list":["post-13665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-travel","tag-annunciation-cathedral","tag-archangel-michael-cathedral","tag-cathedral-square","tag-dormition-cathedral","tag-ivan-the-great-bell-tower","tag-kremlin","tag-kremlin-senate","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-sobornaya-ploschad","tag-state-kremlin-palace","tag-the-arsenal","tag-tsar-cannon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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