Christopher Galloway

Historian Ivan Zabelin believes that Galloway was mentioned in a chronicle as Christophor Christophorov; however, I. L. Buseva-Davydova thinks that those are two different persons.

[1] He travelled to Moscow at the request of King James VI, who at that time arranged sale and diplomatic relations with the Tsar.

It was agreed that Galloway receive 60 rubles per year, 20 copecks provision each day, and a carriage of firewood each week.

[4] In May that same year a heavy fire destroyed the clocks; Galloway restarted the work and finished in 1628; on 16 August 1628 he received almost the same presents as before.

He explains it like that: 'As the Russians are different than other people, the things made should be that way accordingly'[5] In 1633 Galloway constructed a machine to lift water from the Moskva into the Sviblova (Vodovzvodnaya) Tower.