Tsar Bell

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The Tsar Bell (part of Kremlin), a masterpiece of Russian casting, was found in 1735 by the Court cast master Ivan Matorin and his son Mikhail for the Uspenskaya belfry. This 200-ton bell is still the world’s biggest one, but Moscow has never heard its strong voice. There was a legend that it was Peter I who cracked the bell with his bludgeon when it didn’t ring to proclaim the victory of Poltavskaya battle. But the truth is that for unknown reason during the major Troitsky conflagration in 1737 the bell was still in its casting pit. While the fire was being extinguished, the water accidentally touched the red-hot bronze, the bell cracked and 11-ton fragment fall off. For about a century the bell resided in its casting pit on Ivanovskaya Square, till in 1836 French architect Monferran came to Moscow to get the bell out of the pit and put it on a special pedestal.

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