Kolomna Tower

That Marinka gal turned into a crow and left her dungeon...

That was the legend my friend living in Kolomna told me when we stopped by that tower. Rubbish, of course. In reality, no-one knows how she died. Some even claim she was strangled here. A Polish nobl...

The highest tower of the Kremlin

The Marinkina Tower is one of the seven towers of the Kolomna Kremlin that have survived to this day. Built in 1525-1531. The height of the eight-tiered tower is 31 meters. It is generally accept...

Mystical history

Original Text

Beautiful high tower. There is a tradition that Marina Mnishek was imprisoned here, turned into a crow and flew ... saved best, as local residents feared to take bricks from it for their creatures ...

First impression

Original Text

The first impression you get from the Kremlin, seeing this tower at the entrance to Colomna. Impressive. But at once you can see that the wall from the tower goes only one way, and that means the Kremlin, unfortunately, saved only ...

Next to it - monument to Dmitry Donsky

Original Text

I do not know what kind of crow Marina Yurievna from the detention was rushed, but here the hahal of her last Ivan Martynovich on the col in Moscow the foot of the foot planted, and the three-year-old son of Ivan-"Vorenka" there is the same p ...