Address: Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, between Nikolskaya and Dmitrievskaya towers
Start of construction: 1508 year
Completion of construction: 1511 year
Coordinates: 56 ° 19'34.7 "N 44 ° 00'13.0" E
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Brief history and description
The pantry tower, standing on the Minin and Pozharsky square, is the second in terms of age and location after the Dmitrievskaya tower, if you go clockwise.
According to the Solikamsk chronicler, the round tower, now called the Pantry, was founded on September 1, 1500 and received the name "Tverskaya", derived from the word "firmament", that is, "stronghold", "fortress"... In the 16th - 18th centuries, the name Alekseevskaya was assigned to the tower, in honor of the church of St. Metropolitan Alexei, built nearby (the temple has not survived).
View of the tower from Kremlin Boulevard
Later, the tower was renamed the Zeichhausnaya (German: Zeughaus - military warehouse) and the Pantry, since it was used as a storage for ammunition. In the 1700s, the tower was equipped with one "smooth-to-machine" squeak and two "zattenny" squeaks intended for firing "from behind the tyna" (from behind the fence).
At the same time, under the stone arches of the tower, the soldiers hid 64 heavy fortress guns, 884 kilograms of cannonballs, as well as cannons, cannon machines, gunpowder, etc. cases.
View of the tower from st. Pozharskaya
In 1889, the premises of the Pantry Tower were occupied by an archive of documents collected by the Nizhny Novgorod Scientific Commission, and after the Second World War, a fuel warehouse was located here. Throughout its history, the building has repeatedly burned during fires, but during the last restoration in 1953 it was restored. At present, the Pantry Tower consists of four tiers, and its first, lowest floor, which has loopholes, is now underground. Near the tower walls, restorers have restored a trapezoidal annex designed to ventilate the lower tier.
Before the invention of electricity, burning oil was stored here, with the help of which city sidewalks were illuminated.... Above, above the vaults of the first floor, there is a second tier equipped with battle chambers. The third tier is occupied by a "stone tent", and the fourth floor, surrounded by battlements and now crowned with a tent, served as a battleground. Along the combat path of the Pantry Tower, you can climb the Kremlin wall and walk along it. Since 1973, the eponymous cafe has been operating in the tower building.
