Tsar Cannon. Monument to Russian artillery

About king-gun, I think, I heard each of us, because this is the most famous and amazing artillery tool in the world!

The tsar-gun was cast during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich - in 1586. It happened on the gun yard, and the best Russian master Litechik Andrei Chokhov was cast. From under his hands, the real miracle of artillery appeared, 5.34 meters long and 890 millimeters caliber. Just imagine, the outer diameter of the Tsar-gun barrel is 1.2 meters, the diameter of the patterned belt in the dula - 1.34 meters, and weigh this giant gun 39.31 tons! The gun is literally dressed up with reliefs, and the Tsar Fedor Ivanovich himself was depicted on the right side of the blue

On each side of the barrel is 4 staples for fastening the ropes, and above the front right brake, right above the image of the king, there is an inscription "God's greatness King and Grand Prince Fedor Ivanovich Sovereign and autocrats of all Great Russia"

Top on the trunk there are two more inscriptions: right - "by the command of the blessed and Christ-loving king and the Grand Prince Fedor Ivanovich the Soviet of the Self-Great Russia, with his pious and Christ-loving queen of the Grand Princess Irina," and on the left - "smear to be a cannon in the presented city of Moscow 7094, in the third summer of his state. Did a gun on a cannon Litez Ondrey Chokhov "

There are many versions of the appearance of such a majestic name, some for example believe that it was named in the honor of the king depicted on it, others are sure that such a name is a gun for its sizes (like a king bell), and at the very beginning the gun at all was called "Russian shotgun", as it was intended for shooting a booth

In 1834, special decorative nuclei decorated with ornaments were made to demonstrate the true caliber of the tools in St. Petersburg. Weigh such cores almost two tons each, but the gun cannot shoot them

The king gun was designed to become the main protective gun of the Kremlin, and therefore it was installed on a special layout of the floor not far from the frontal place, but in the present battle she was not destined to participate ...

The gun was moved to the Kremlin in the XVIII century. Initially, she stood in the courtyard of Arsenal, and then was transferred to his goal. In the 1960s, when the Kremlin Palace of Congresses was built, the gun was placed on the Ivanovo Square, at the foot of the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles

The king-gun is the biggest warmness in the world in caliber, which is evidenced by the corresponding entry in the Guinness Book of Records. The most major artillery gun from ever created is the German "Dora" Calibrom 800 mm and weighing in a combat position of 1350 tons

Tsar-gun carefully investigated in 1980 for the purpose of repair. During this examination it turned out that the tool was intended for firing with stone cores weighing about 800 kilograms and that he was shooting at least once

In the spring of 2001, by order of the Government of Moscow, a copy of the king cannon weighing 42 tons was made

In May 2001, the Moscow government presented this copy to Donetsk - since the building of the local mayor's office has been banging the "ghost" of the legendary gun