Surrounded by an imposing red wall with many towers, The Kremlin always used to conjure up such imagery of Cold War politics, that I wasn't expecting the array of 4 cathedrals and its history of use as a public space as well as a governmental one.
The one Cold War type administrative building I saw in there:
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The rest were more classical like these:
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3 of the 4 cathedrals
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Interior of one – typical of them all.
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The Tsar's Cannon... did they really use this?!? Or was it just for show? A Tsar's plaything.
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The Kremlin wasn't just administration, religion and war though, it was also nature with a small well-tended park.
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