Kremlin
THE, an architectural pile in Moscow, on the N. bank of the river Moskva. It forms the center of the city of Moscow, and around it, with a radius of about a mile, is a line of boulevards, extending, however, only on the N. side of the river. Outside of this line, and concentric with it, is another line of boulevards, with a radius of a mile and a half; while beyond all, and forming the girdle of the city, is the outer rampart, with a circumference of 26 English miles. The Kremlin comprises the principal buildings, as the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, founded in 1326, a small but gorgeously decorated edifice; the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, containing the tombs of all the czars down to the time of Peter the Great, who changed the royal burial place to Petrograd, the of which is paved with jaspers, agates, Church of the Annunciation, the floor tower of Ivan Veliki, 200 feet in height, and carnelians of various shapes; the hira to abandon the the end of the war, med bis appearances with even greater ac- In addition to player of the pieces of great an isometric mineral, ns, as a sublimation meroles of Vesuvina Ichle indwater. Comto Kremers), a hy botassian, ammonius, E, an architectural the N. bank of the the center of the round it, with a line of boule. only on the side of this is another radius of a eyond all, and city, is the sereumference of the Cathedral of containing the own to the time ho changed the to Petrograd, the nnunciation, the floor with Jaspers, agates, various shapes; the ki, 200 feet in height, KREMLIN he visited America, where he was well received. Following the entrance of the United States in the war, unwarranted and surmounted by a magnificent gilded dome from which, as from all the domes of Moscow, rises the "honorable cross"; KREMNITZ the Czar Kolokol (king of bells), the greatest bell in the world, several palaces and collections of aces and collections of ancient arms and other antiquities; the arsenal, surrounded by the splendid trophy of 850 cannons, taken from the French, and the senate. The walls of the Kremlin are surmounted by 18 towers, and five gates. The Kremlin suffered during the revolution of 1917, at various times during revolutionary uprisings that followed.
When the central Bolshevik Government was moved from Petrograd to Moscow, it became its headquarters.