Chapter Knot and Bridle to Kremlin of K by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

and Pietro Antonio, for Ivan III. in 1485. There had been previously a wooden fortress on the spot. (Russian krem, a fortress.)

“Towers of every form, round, square, and with pointed roofs, belfries, donjons, turrets, spires, sentry- boxes fixed on minarets, steeples of every height, style, and colour: palaces, domes, watch-towers, walls embattlemented and pierced with loop-holes, ramparts, fortifications of every description, chiosks by the side of cathedrals; monuments of pride and caprice, voluptuousness, glory, and piety.”- De Custine: Russia, chap. xxii.

    Every city in Russia has its kremlin (citadel); but that of Moscow is the most important.