View from Ivanovo Square in the Kremlin for the Bishop’s House, the Spassk Tower and the Church of Nikolai Gostunsky (the view of the Spassky Gate from the bell tower of Ivan the Great in Moscow)

The artist is Delabart

The picture of Delabart shows the area between the bell tower of Ivan the Great and the Spasskaya Tower inside the Kremlin, the most ancient place in Moscow. An impartial painter depicted a plain in the foreground, covered with fragments of stones. This part of the Kremlin looked after destructive changes associated with an unfulfilled project for the construction of a giant large Kremlin palace, conceived in. And. Bazhenov. In 1771-1773, the buildings of old and new orders were demolished (built in 1675–1680), other buildings. The newly erected bishop’s house is visible on the left (arch. M. F. Kazakov, 1776) later rebuilt to the Nikolaev Palace.

Small single -Kupol Church of Nikolai Gastunsky in the center of the composition (Arch. Aleviz New, 1506), revered by Muscovites, survived during the fire of Moscow, but was demolished in 1818. To Emperor Alexander I, she seemed to “doing disgrace to the Kremlin”.

On the right is the top of the Konstantino-Elenin tower. In front of him, guns that were postponed from Red Square in 1786. In the picture f. Hilferding “Red Square in Moscow” (I Paul. 1780s, timing) the battery is still located in front of the Kremlin wall.