Beklemishevskaya Tower

It was named after a boyar Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev, whose house had been adjacent to the tower from the Kremlin side.

It is similar to the other two towers standing at the other corners of the Kremlin triangle, Vodovzvodnaya and Uglovaya Arsenalnaya rowers.

This is a 46.2 meter high cylindrical tower with four floors and widely spaced narrow windows.

It was built in place of an earlier fortification following the plans of the Italian architect Marco Ruffo.

While it is sometimes considered the only tower on the wall of the Kremlin that has not changed substantially over the preceding centuries, it has also been suggested that it was destroyed by the forces of Napoleon and rebuilt subsequently.