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Saturday, the 20-th of February 2021

The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

It is a joint product of all members of the team "HISTORY & WONDER KEEPERS" from SCHOOL № 21

The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is the main attraction of the city
Founded by Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich in 1221 on the high bank of the confluence of the Volga and the Oka, Nizhny Novgorod was immediately fortified.
At first, the fortification was earthen, then wooden, and in 1374 a white-stone Kremlin was erected.
In 1500 the Kremlin appeared as it still stands today.The wall of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is considered to be one of the longest in Russia. Its length is 2.045 km.
According to experts, the structure has no analogues in terms of the height difference (about 80 meters) between its two halves.

Invincible Kremlin

There are 13 towers in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: Dmitrovskaya, Nikolskaya, Ivanovskaya, Borisoglebskaya, Georgievskaya, Kladovaya, Koromyslovaya, Taynitskaya, Severnaya, Chasovaya, Belaya, Porokhovaya, Zachatyevskaya. 5 of them are square and 8 are round. The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is the only Kremlin whose territory has not been entered by the enemy's foot.

Historical facts & сurrent preparation for the 800 th anniversary

New Year's 3D installation on the Dmitrievskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin on the holidays in 2021

The empress Catherine II was horrified by the state of Nizhny Novgorod. Devastation reigned here. In October 1834, her grandson Nicholas I came to the city. The first thing he noticed was traffic jams on the territory of the Kremlin. In particular, they were in the Ivanovskaya and Dmitrievskaya towers/. The next day, he personally drew ways to bypass the territory of the fortress and advised to create two embankments.

Magic Kremlin in winter

The Dmitrievskaya Tower

Dmitrievskaya (Dmitrovskaya) tower is a passage tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, overlooking the Minin and Pozharsky square. It is considered to be the main gate of the fortress. This tower is the unofficial symbol of Nizhny Novgorod. It got its modern look in the pseudo-Russian style in 1895.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Wonderful installations on the walls of the Kremlin
are devoted to Minin and Pozharsky

During the Time of Troubles Nizhny Novgorod continued to support occupied Moscow. Almost the entire country was under Polish occupation, there were no Poles in Nizhny. At the same time, the citizens of Nizhny Novgorod elected a new zemstvo headman - Kuzma Minin.

National heroes Minin and Pozharsky are known to be leaders of the Second People's Home Guard during the Time of Troubles.
Inhabitants of Nizhny Novgorod, led by the headman Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, gathered Home Guard to liberate Moscow from Polish invaders in 1611.

By decision of the city council a general meeting of Nizhny Novgorod residents was appointed in the Kremlin. There Minin appealed to the people to unite for the liberation of Russia from foreign invaders and asked Prince Dmitry Pozharsky to lead the people's Home Guard.

By the fall of 1612, the capital was free.

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