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Towers of the Kremlin

1 _____ its beauty the Kremlin was 2 ____ to be one of the finest fortresses of its epoch. It 3 ______ all foreigners that came to the capital. 4 _____, its secrets were carefully kept, and speaking of the walls of the Moscow “castle” Englishmen said that no foreigner was 5 _____ to have a close 6 _____ at the walls of the fortress.

Now there are 20 towers in the Moscow Kremlin; the Italian architects – Antonio Fryasin and Pietro Solari were made 7 ______ for the main work. 8 ______ the end of the 15th century, the length of the Kremlin wall was more than 2 km.

The oldest Kremlin tower Tainitskaya was built in 1485. It faces the Moscow River and its name is 9 ______ with a secret underground passage to the river 10 ______ the citizens were not left without water in case of a siege.

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