The openwork belfry was designed in the 1860s so as to echo the Kremlin towers across the river.

Then all Kremlin towers received tent roofs, except Nikolskaya.

The northern side is occupied by the State Historical Museum, whose outlines echo those of Kremlin towers.

The Kremlin tower in the upper-left corner shows that the village belongs to Moscow Oblast.

His apartment overlooked the river; his offices were within one of the stuffy encrusted Kremlin towers from whose windows he could keep the Moskva in sight.

This was the first building which gave the square its present-day characteristic silhouette (pyramidal roofs had not yet been built on the Kremlin towers).

He built a number of the Kremlin towers, including the Beklemishevskaya, Spasskaya and Nikolskaya towers.

If the edifice really reflects some original features of Tatar architecture, then its design should have certainly influenced that of the Kremlin towers in Moscow.

One of the Kremlin towers was named after Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev because his house had been adjacent to the tower from the Kremlin side.

Originally there were eighteen Kremlin towers, but their number increased to twenty in the 17th century.