The artist is Delabart
In the foreground part of the wall of Kitay-Gorod with a dull nameless tower. Kitay-Gorod is one of the oldest areas of Moscow, directly adjacent to the Kremlin and limited by the rivers of the Moscow River and Neglinka. For centuries, he was surrounded by an earthen rampart, in 1535–1538, according to the project of the Italian architect Petrock Maly Fryazin, a protective wall with twelve towers was built. The wall of Kitay-Gorod, 2567 meters long, was lower than the Kremlin, but had a large thickness, was able to withstand the artillery attack.
On the left is a cargo marina on the Moscow River, in the center in the distance of the Kremlin wall with Beklemishevskaya (Moskvoretskaya) tower, behind the wall-the bell tower of Ivan the Great. In front of the Kitay -Gorod wall – the embankment with travel, stone flour lababes without windows are attached to the wall. In the distance – a light wooden Moskvoretsky bridge, which annually after the flood was re -blocked by piles.
Delabart depicted trees growing in the cracks of the ancient wall, likening it to Roman ruins. The poet Fedor Glinka wrote about the same in the poem “Moscow”:
The city is wonderful, ancient city …
On your churches of ancient
The tree grows ..
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