Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge

[2] A "live" bridge of boats linked the Kremlin with Zamoskvorechye on a nearby site as early as the 15th century.

In 1643, Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich engaged Anie and Jogann Cristler, architects from Strassburg to design a stone bridge.

Its south end terminated with a barbican tower, commonly called Six Gates (two for through traffic, four looking sideways).

[citation needed] The bridge deck originally included wooden storehouses, mills, taverns and tax collector's booths.

[4] The Second Stone Bridge was built in 1859 by colonel Tannenberg on the same site, in line with today's Lenivka Street.

Kalmykov's design was completed in 1935-1938, on a site which is two blocks closer to Kremlin than the previous bridges.

Existing bridge (July 2015)
Vsehsvyatsky Bridge (All Saints Bridge, old name of Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge) and the Kremlin at the end of the 17th century. By Apollinary Vasnetsov , 1922
First Stone Bridge, as depicted by Fyodor Alekseev in the early 19th century. Note the space between the bridge and the corner Kremlin tower [ clarification needed ]
Second Stone Bridge, postcard
Second Stone Bridge, view from Christ the Savior
2008