Water Tower

Ruby star on the Water Tower

      61.85 metres high with the star. This corner tower is one of the most beautiful in the Kremlin. It got Its name from a water pump installed in the tower in the seventeenth century. The mechanic and clockmaker Christopher Halloway made a special mechanism enabling water from a nearby well to be pumped along lead pipes to the palace and the Kremlin gardens. In 1805 the tower was taken down and rebuilt, but it was blown up by Napoleon's army. Later it was restored, and in 1937 it acquired a ruby star on top.

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