The Borovitsky Gates are considered the oldest in the Kremlin. For a long time they competed in importance with the Spasskys, but today we can consider that they have surpassed them - it is through them that the president and his most honored guests enter the Kremlin. Ordinary people can also follow this route if they go on an excursion to the Armory or the Diamond Fund.
The Borovitsky Gates, like the tower of the same name, are located at the mouth of the Neglinnaya River. It is believed that the tower was named after a pine forest growing nearby in ancient times, which covered the seven hills on which Moscow was built since ancient times. The name is very old, it has passed the test of time and the royal ban. In 1658, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered the gates to be called Predtechensky, after the name of a nearby church, but the new name did not take root among the people. Above the gate, in a special icon case, once there was even an icon of St. John the Baptist, but she disappeared during the Soviet era. Instead of an icon, a clock appeared.
The Borovitsky Gates are regularly closed for short-term repairs, and as long as it lasts, the country's leadership uses the Spassky Gates. Most of all, paving stones need repair, which is displaced due to the action of melt water. The construction organization conducting the repair is trying to preserve the original appearance of the Kremlin. For the last twenty years, these gates have remained the main and practically the only gates of the Kremlin.
Several historical facts, mysteries and even legends are connected with the Borovitsky Gates. On the folds of the wings, restorers found coats of arms of ancient origin - Moscow and Lithuanian. It is clear that these coats of arms appeared here at the same time, but when and in connection with what event, scientists have not yet found out. In 1969, an unsuccessful attempt was made here on the first person of the state of those years, Leonid Brezhnev. There are persistent rumors that under the gate there is a secret underground passage through which you can evacuate in case of an attack on the Kremlin. Externally, the architectural composition of the tower is almost an exact copy of one of the towers of the Kazan Kremlin - Syuyumbiki, the Tatar queen, lived in it.
It is also interesting that the four towers, Borovitskaya, Moskvoretskaya, Vodovoznaya and Nikolskaya, are located exactly along the line of the circle, the center of which is at the Assumption Cathedral. No one has given an exact answer to such a coincidence in location, but some tend to believe that this is no accident, this has a practical or even mystical meaning. Residents of the capital, passing by, look with interest at the emerging flags of foreign states raised at the Borovitsky Gate. Each new banner says that a foreign president is in the Kremlin. It is customary in Moscow to welcome kind guests with honors.
How to get from the subway
The easiest way to get to the Borovitsky Gates is from the Aleksandrovsky Sad and Borovitskaya metro stations. When exiting the Borovitskaya metro station, turn right, walk along the street. Mokhovaya to the intersection with Znamenka, turn left, there you will already see the Borovitsky Gates. If you go from the Aleksandrovsky Sad metro station, then when you exit, go along the passage to yourself, then also turn right, cross the entire garden and exit to the Borovitsky Gate.
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Borovitskaya (Predtechenskaya) tower- one of the southwestern towers of the Moscow Kremlin. It goes to the Alexander Garden and Borovitskaya Square, located next to the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge. The name of the tower, according to legend, comes from the ancient forest that once covered one of the seven hills on which Moscow stands.
Story
Before the construction of the modern Borovitskaya tower, there was another one in its place, which had the same name. This is evidenced by a record about the construction in 1461 of the Church of John the Baptist "on the forest", where it was written that this church stood at the "Borovitsky gates".
The new Borovitskaya tower was built in 1490 by order of Ivan III by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari, who arrived in Moscow from Milan. At the same time, Solari erected a wall from Borovitskaya to the corner Vodovzvodnaya tower.
In 1493, the tower was seriously damaged by fire. 
By decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, on April 16, 1658, the Borovitskaya Tower was renamed the Predtechenskaya - after the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in the Kremlin (dismantled in 1847), but this name did not take root.
Above the Borovitsky Gates in the icon case was the icon of St. John the Baptist. The clergy of the Church of St. Nicholas Streletsky, located on Borovitskaya Square, looked after the icon lamp. The temple was destroyed in 1932 during the construction of the Sokolnicheskaya subway line. The icon was also lost in Soviet times.
In the 18th century, the tower was repaired and decorated with white stone details in pseudo-Gothic style. When the French army led by Napoleon entered Moscow in 1812, many of Moscow's architectural monuments were damaged or destroyed by fires and explosions. So, they also blew up the Vodovzvodnaya tower adjacent to Borovitskaya. During the explosion, the top of the tent fell from the Borovitskaya tower.
In 1816-1819, the tower was repaired under the guidance of the architect O. I. Bove. Apparently, at the same time, a clock appeared on the tower, at least on the drawings that have survived from that time, the gate and the clock are indicated.
In 1848, after the destruction of the Church of the Nativity of the Forerunner near Bor, the tower was turned into a church. The throne was moved there from the church and the pseudo-Gothic decorations were destroyed. Many other decorative elements of the Borovitskaya Tower were destroyed during the next renovation in the 1860s.
In the 1970s, the white stone decorations were restored, and a shield with the coat of arms of Moscow was placed over the gate.
In the summer of 2006, the next repair work of the Borovitskaya Tower was carried out. During the week, government motorcades traveled through the Spassky Gates.
Internal layout
The tiers are connected with each other by stairs, which are located in the thickness of the eastern and northern walls. A spiral staircase in the southeast corner of the tower runs through the entire main quarter from the basement to the second quarter.
Arrow and gate
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An excerpt characterizing the Borovitskaya Tower
Although none of the column commanders drove up to the ranks and did not speak with the soldiers (the column commanders, as we saw at the military council, were out of sorts and dissatisfied with the work being undertaken, and therefore only carried out orders and did not care to amuse the soldiers), despite On top of that, the soldiers went merrily, as always, going into action, especially in the offensive. But, after passing through a dense fog for about an hour, most of the troops had to stop, and an unpleasant consciousness of disorder and confusion swept through the ranks. How this consciousness is transmitted is very difficult to determine; but what is certain is that it is conveyed with unusual fidelity and quickly overflows, imperceptibly and uncontrollably, like water down a hollow. If the Russian army had been alone, without allies, then, perhaps, a long time would have passed before this consciousness of disorder would become a general confidence; but now, with particular pleasure and naturalness, attributing the cause of the disturbances to the stupid Germans, everyone was convinced that a harmful confusion was taking place, which the sausage workers had done.- What have become then? Al blocked? Or did you stumble upon a Frenchman?
- No, don't hear it. And then he would start firing.
- Then they hurried to speak, but they spoke - they stood uselessly in the middle of the field - all the damned Germans confuse. Eki stupid devils!
- Then I would let them go ahead. And then, I suppose, they huddle behind. Now stop and don't eat.
- Yes, will it be there soon? The cavalry, they say, blocked the road, - said the officer.
“Oh, the damned Germans, they don’t know their land,” said another.
What division are you? shouted the adjutant as he drove up.
- Eighteenth.
"So why are you here?" you should have been ahead long ago, now you won’t get through until evening.
- These are stupid orders; they don’t know what they are doing,” the officer said and drove off.
Then a general drove by and angrily shouted something not in Russian.
“Tafa lafa, and what he mumbles, you can’t make out anything,” the soldier said, mimicking the general who had left. “I would have shot them, scoundrels!”
- At the ninth hour it was ordered to be on the spot, but we didn’t get even half. Here are the orders! – repeated from different sides.
And the feeling of energy with which the troops went into action began to turn into annoyance and anger at the stupid orders and at the Germans.
The reason for the confusion was that during the movement of the Austrian cavalry, marching on the left flank, the higher authorities found that our center was too far from the right flank, and the entire cavalry was ordered to move to the right side. Several thousand cavalry advanced ahead of the infantry, and the infantry had to wait.
Ahead there was a clash between an Austrian column leader and a Russian general. The Russian general shouted, demanding that the cavalry be stopped; the Austrian argued that it was not he who was to blame, but the higher authorities. Meanwhile, the troops stood, bored and discouraged. After an hour's delay, the troops finally moved on and began to descend downhill. The mist that dispersed on the mountain only spread thicker in the lower parts, where the troops descended. Ahead, in the fog, one shot, another shot rang out, at first awkwardly at different intervals: a draft ... tat, and then more and more smoothly and more often, and the affair over the Goldbach River began.
Not expecting to meet the enemy below over the river and accidentally stumbling upon him in the fog, not hearing a word of inspiration from the highest commanders, with the consciousness spreading through the troops that it was too late, and, most importantly, in thick fog not seeing anything ahead and around them, the Russians lazily and slowly exchanged fire with the enemy, moved forward and stopped again, not receiving orders during the time from the commanders and adjutants, who wandered through the fog in an unfamiliar area, not finding their troops. Thus began the case for the first, second and third columns, which went down. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov himself was, stood on the Pratsen Heights.
There was still thick fog downstairs, where the action had begun, and it cleared up above, but nothing of what was going on ahead could be seen. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we assumed, ten miles away from us, or whether he was here, in this line of fog, no one knew until the ninth hour.
It was 9 o'clock in the morning. The fog spread like a solid sea along the bottom, but near the village of Shlapanitsa, at the height on which Napoleon stood, surrounded by his marshals, it was completely light. Above him was a clear, blue sky, and a huge ball of the sun, like a huge hollow crimson float, swayed on the surface of a milky sea of fog. Not only all the French troops, but Napoleon himself with his headquarters were not on the other side of the streams and the lower villages of Sokolnits and Shlapanits, behind which we intended to take a position and start business, but on this side, so close to our troops that Napoleon with a simple eye could in our army to distinguish horse from foot. Napoleon stood a little ahead of his marshals on a small gray Arabian horse, in a blue greatcoat, in the same one in which he made the Italian campaign. He silently peered into the hills, which seemed to emerge from a sea of fog, and along which Russian troops were moving in the distance, and listened to the sounds of shooting in the hollow. At that time, his still thin face did not move a single muscle; shining eyes were fixed fixedly on one place. His guesses turned out to be correct. Part of the Russian troops had already descended into the hollow to the ponds and lakes, partly they were clearing those Pratsensky heights, which he intended to attack and considered the key to the position. In the midst of the fog, in the deepening made up by two mountains near the village of Prats, Russian columns were moving in the same direction towards the hollows, shining with bayonets, and one after another they were hiding in a sea of fog. According to the information he had received in the evening, from the sounds of wheels and steps heard at night at outposts, from the disorderly movement of Russian columns, according to all assumptions, he clearly saw that the Allies considered him far ahead of them, that the columns moving near Pratsen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that the center is already sufficiently weakened to successfully attack it. But he still hasn't started the business.
Today was a solemn day for him - the anniversary of his coronation. Before morning, he dozed off for several hours and healthy, cheerful, fresh, in that happy state of mind in which everything seems possible and everything succeeds, mounted a horse and rode into the field. He stood motionless, looking at the heights visible through the fog, and on his cold face there was that special shade of self-confident, well-deserved happiness that happens on the face of a boy in love and happy. The marshals stood behind him and did not dare to divert his attention. He looked now at the Pracen Heights, now at the sun emerging from the mist.
When the sun was completely out of the fog and splashed with a blinding brilliance over the fields and fog (as if he had only been waiting for this to start the business), he took off the glove from his beautiful, white hand, made a sign to the marshals with it and gave the order to start the business. The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped in different directions, and after a few minutes the main forces of the French army quickly moved to those Pratsensky heights, which were more and more cleared by Russian troops descending to the left into the hollow.
At 8 o'clock Kutuzov rode on horseback to Prats, ahead of the 4th Miloradovichevsky column, the one that was supposed to take the place of the Przhebyshevsky and Lanzheron columns, which had already descended. He greeted the people of the front regiment and gave the order to move, showing by the fact that he himself intended to lead this column. Having left for the village of Prats, he stopped. Prince Andrei, among the huge number of persons who made up the retinue of the commander-in-chief, stood behind him. Prince Andrei felt agitated, irritated, and at the same time restrainedly calm, as a person is at the onset of a long-desired moment. He was firmly convinced that today was the day of his Toulon or his Arcole bridge. How it would happen, he did not know, but he was firmly convinced that it would be. The terrain and the position of our troops were known to him, as far as they could be known to anyone from our army. His own strategic plan, which, obviously, now there was nothing to think of to carry out, was forgotten by him. Now, already entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrei pondered possible accidents and made new considerations, such that his quickness of thought and decisiveness might be required.
To the left below, in the fog, there was a skirmish between invisible troops. There, it seemed to Prince Andrei, the battle would focus, there an obstacle would be encountered, and “there I will be sent,” he thought, “with a brigade or division, and there, with a banner in my hand, I will go forward and break everything that is in front of me” .
Prince Andrei could not look indifferently at the banners of the passing battalions. Looking at the banner, he kept thinking: maybe this is the same banner with which I will have to go ahead of the troops.
By morning the night mist left only hoarfrost on the heights, turning into dew, while in the hollows the mist spread like a milky white sea. Nothing could be seen in that hollow to the left, where our troops had descended and from where the sounds of shooting were coming. Above the heights was a dark, clear sky, and to the right a huge orb of the sun. Ahead, far away, on the other side of the foggy sea, one could see protruding wooded hills, on which the enemy army should have been, and something could be seen. To the right, the guards entered the region of fog, resounding with trampling and wheels, and occasionally shining with bayonets; to the left, behind the village, similar masses of cavalry approached and hid in a sea of mist. Infantry moved in front and behind. The commander-in-chief stood at the exit of the village, letting the troops pass by. Kutuzov this morning seemed exhausted and irritable. The infantry marching past him stopped without orders, apparently because something ahead of them delayed them.
“Yes, tell me, finally, that they line up in battalion columns and go around the village,” Kutuzov angrily said to the general who had arrived. - How can you not understand, Your Excellency, my dear sir, that it is impossible to stretch along this defile of the village street when we are going against the enemy.
“I planned to line up behind the village, Your Excellency,” the general replied.
Kutuzov laughed bitterly.
- You will be good, deploying the front in the sight of the enemy, very good.
“The enemy is still far away, Your Excellency. By disposition...
Borovitskaya (Predtechenskaya) Tower- one of the southwestern towers of the Moscow Kremlin. It goes to the Alexander Garden and Borovitskaya Square, located next to the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge. The name of the tower, according to legend, comes from the ancient forest that once covered one of the seven hills on which Moscow stands. According to another legend, the tower got its name from the builders of the white-stone Kremlin under Dmitry Donskoy - the inhabitants of Borovsk built this part.
The height of the tower is 54 meters.
Before the construction of modern Borovitskaya tower in its place there was another, which had the same name. This is evidenced by a record about the construction in 1461 of the Church of John the Baptist "on the forest", where it was written that this church stood at the "Borovitsky gates".
New Borovitskaya tower was built by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari during the renovation of the Kremlin in 1490, by order of Vasily III (the architect arrived from Milan to Moscow in 1490). At the same time, Solari also erected a wall from Borovitskaya to the corner Vodovzvodnaya tower.
In the XVI-XVII centuries. through Borovitskaya tower they drove into the economic part of the Kremlin - to the Zhitny and Konyushenny courtyards, isolated from the front part of the fortress by a wall built in 1499.
In 1493 the tower was seriously damaged by fire.
In the summer of 2006, regular repairs were carried out Borovitskaya tower.
During the week, government motorcades traveled through the Spassky Gates.
Internal layout
The main quadrangle (16.68 m): the inner part of the tower has two tiers covered with barrel vaults. From the first tier you can get into a partially filled basement. On the second tier, there are details of the decor of the church that used to be here, for example, a 19th-century solea. (the tower church was destroyed after the 1917 revolution)
The second quarter (4.16 m): the room is covered with a closed vault with stripping for windows.
The third (3.47 m) and fourth quadruples (4.16 m): combined into one room and also have a closed vault with formwork for windows.
The octagon (4.16 m) and the tent (18.07 m): combined into one room, long narrow rumors cut through the walls.
The tiers are connected with each other by stairs, which are located in the thickness of the eastern and northern walls. A spiral staircase in the southeast corner of the tower runs through the entire main quarter from the basement to the second quarter.
Gate of the Borovitskaya tower. Shooter and gate.
The retractable archer has a triangular shape in plan. It communicates with the basement of the main quarter. Above the passage gates there are narrow openings that used to serve for the chains of the drawbridge across the Neglinka. In addition, vertical grooves for the gersa (lower grate) have been preserved in the gate passage. It is believed that the Borovitsky Gates are the oldest of the Kremlin gates, they are also the closest to the Neglinnaya River.
Drawbridge
At the beginning of the XVI century. the Neglinka river flowed along the western wall of the Kremlin and had rather swampy and swampy banks. In addition, from the Borovitskaya Tower, it turned sharply to the southwest, moving away from the Kremlin walls. Near the Borovitsky Gate, a stone arched bridge was thrown across the river.
In 1510, they decided to straighten the channel and bring it closer to the walls. A channel was dug Borovitskaya tower to the Moskva River past the Vodovzvodnaya Tower. This made this section of the Kremlin difficult to access militarily, but also forced the construction of a drawbridge to the Borovitskaya Tower, which has a gate.
The lifting mechanism was located on the second tier of the tower.
In 1821, Neglinka was taken into the pipe, the Alexander Garden was laid out in its place, and the drawbridge of the tower lost its significance and was dismantled.
January 22, 1969 circa Borovitskaya tower Viktor Ilyin carried out an unsuccessful attempt on L. I. Brezhnev.
There is an opinion that an underground passage passes under the Borovitsky Gates.
If a foreign flag is flying on a building near the Borovitsky Gate, it means that a foreign president is currently in the Kremlin.
On the Borovitskaya tower one of the towers of the Kazan Kremlin is similar - the tower of the Tatar queen Syuyumbika.
Borovitskaya tower Moscow Kremlin. View from the Vodovzvodnaya tower.
Borovitskaya tower Moscow Kremlin. View from the Vodovzvodnaya tower.
Vodovzvodnaya and Blagoveshchenskaya towers of the Moscow Kremlin. Behind them - Borovitskaya tower.
Vodovzvodnaya and Blagoveshchenskaya towers of the Moscow Kremlin. Behind them - Borovitskaya tower.
Kremlin embankment. Tainitskaya Tower, 1st Nameless Tower, 2nd Nameless Tower, Petrovskaya (Ugreshskaya) Tower. Far left - Borovitskaya (Predtechenskaya) tower. You can see the domes of the Cathedral of Michael the Archangel.
View from
And Borovitskaya Square.
Nearest metro station: Borovitskaya, Lenin Library.
One of the five Kremlin stars is located on the Borovitskaya Tower.
The height of the tower to the star is 50.7 m, with the star - 54.05 m.
It is believed that the name of the tower comes from the ancient forest, which was once in this place. According to another version, the tower got its name from the builders of the white-stone Kremlin - the inhabitants of the city built this part. This version is incredible. There were no cases when the object was named after the builders.
The Borovitskaya Tower was built by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari in 1490 under Vasily III. At the same time, Solari erected a wall from Borovitskaya to. It served as an entrance to the economic half of the sovereign's court, separated from its front part by a stone wall erected in 1499.
In the 16-17 centuries, through the Borovitskaya tower, they entered the economic part of the Kremlin - to the Zhitny and Konyushenny yards.
Alexei Mikhailovich, by his decree, renamed the tower into Predtechenskaya (in 1658) - after the Church of the Nativity of the Forerunner in the Kremlin (not preserved). But the new name did not stick.
Initially, the tower was a powerful quadrangle covered with a wooden tent. In the 1680s, three decreasing quadruplets, an open octagon and a stone tent were erected over it, giving the tower a pyramidal tiered shape. At the same time, a retractable archer was added, located on the side of the tower. Passage gates with an iron lattice and a drawbridge across the Neglinnaya River were made in it. In the XVIII century, during the repair of the tower, pseudo-Gothic details were introduced into its decor.
In 1812, during the explosion of the nearby Vodovzvodnaya Tower, the top of the Borovitskaya tent fell down. In 1816-1819 the tower was repaired under the leadership of O.I. Bove. In 1848, the throne of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist near Bor was moved to the Borovitskaya Tower and the pseudo-Gothic decor was removed. Inside, the main quarter of the tower is divided into two tiers, covered with barrel vaults. The octagon is opened into the cavity of the tent, cut through by rumors, all the tiers are interconnected by a system of stairs located in the thickness of the walls. In the passage of the gate of the diversion archer, vertical grooves for the gers survived.
In 1935, a five-pointed star 3.35 m high was installed on the Borovitskaya Tower (the span of the rays is 3.2 m). In 1937, the star was replaced with a new one, which is still on the tower.
On January 22, 1969, near the Borovitskaya Tower, Viktor Ilyin carried out an unsuccessful attempt on L.I. Brezhnev.
The Borovitskaya Tower is located in the southwest of the Moscow Kremlin. It offers a stunning view of the Stone Bridge. In turn, the tower can be admired from the side of the Alexander Garden.
History reference
The Borovitskaya tower of the Kremlin is the ninth in a row. It was built by Peter Fryazin in 1490. The height of the structure reaches 54 meters along with the star. The chronicle says that earlier on the site of the tower there was another building, which was called exactly the same.
In 1658, the tower was renamed Predtechenskaya - after the Church of the Nativity of the Forerunner. But soon it was returned to its former name. Initially, it arose due to the location of the tower - it stands on Borovitsky Hill.
According to another legend, craftsmen from Borovsk were engaged in its construction, so it is named after them. Another version - the tower is named after one of the seven hills on which Moscow stands - Borovitsky.
Appearance
The basis of the Borovitskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin is formed by a quadrangle, the top of which is decorated with a wooden tent. In 1666-1680, the tent was removed and three more quarters were built on, each of which decreases upwards, an octahedron and a stone tent.
As a result, the tower received a peculiar stepped shape. On the side, a diversion archer and a passage gate were attached. The gate was equipped with an iron grate, and a drawbridge was thrown across the Neglinka.
In the eighteenth century, this landmark of Moscow was decorated with white stone details made in pseudo-Gothic style. During the war with the French in 1812, the tower was seriously damaged - as a result of an explosion, the top of the tent fell off it. The reconstruction was carried out in 1816-1819 under the direction of the architect Beauvais.
In 1848, the Borovitskaya tower became a church, and all pseudo-Gothic decorations were destroyed. Other decorative elements disappeared during renovations in the 1860s. A century later, white-stone decorations were restored, and a shield was installed above the gate, on which the coat of arms of Moscow was drawn. In 1935, a red star with the image of a hammer and sickle appeared on the tower. Two years later - a ruby star. Another renovation took place in the summer of 2006.
Internal layout
In total, the Borovitskaya tower has five tiers. They are connected by a system of stairs built into the northern and eastern walls. The main quadrangle is covered with cylindrical vaults. From the first tier you can go to the basement - it is partially filled up, on the second there are elements of the decor of the former church.
The second quadrangle is covered with a closed vault and has window openings. Two more quarters, as well as an octagon and a tent are combined into one room.
Gate of the Borovitskaya Tower
The outlet shooter of the tower has a triangular shape and is connected to the basement of the main quadrangle. There are narrow openings above the gate, in which the chains of the drawbridge across the Neglinka used to be located. In the passage of the gate, you can see vertical grooves for a special drop grate. The Borovitsky Gates are considered the oldest in the Kremlin Palace. They preserved old images of coats of arms, the origin of which has not been established.
Borovitskaya metro station
The nearest metro station to the tower is Borovitskaya. The distance between them is about 450 meters. During the construction of the metro, a brick house was found in almost perfect condition. It was built in the sixteenth century, and it fell underground due to a sinkhole. Inside, all things and furniture have been preserved. The easiest way to get to the Borovitskaya Tower of the Kremlin is by metro. The main landmarks are Borovitskaya Square and Alexander Garden.
surrounding area
Near the Borovitskaya tower is the Armory - the museum of the Moscow Kremlin. The building was built in 1547 and used to be called the Great Treasury. Inside is the Diamond Fund, which contains unique metals and precious stones of historical value.
- In 1969, near the Borovitskaya tower on L.I. Brezhnev was assassinated.
- There is an opinion that under the gates of this attraction of the Kremlin there is an underground passage.
- The Borovitskaya tower is similar to another tower of the Kremlin - the Tatar queen Syuyumbike.
- The flag of a foreign state located next to the Borovitsky Gate indicates that the head of this state has arrived in the Kremlin.
