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Tsar Bell
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Key facts
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Designer
- Ivan Motorin
- Type
- Tower Bell
- Material
- Bell bronze
- Width
- 6.6 metres (22 ft)
- Height
- 6.14 metres (20.1 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monument
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Tverskoy District
- Material used
- bronze
- Location
- Kremlin
- Mass
- 201924
- Image
- Moskau-Grosse-Glocke Mai 08.jpg
- Height
- 6.24
- Has use
- monument
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- Commons category
- Tsar Bell
- inception
- 1733-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- time of earliest written record
- 1737-00-00
- directions
- Ивановская площадь
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tsar Bell with humans for perspective – broken piece is around the left, out of view The Tsar Bell (Russian: Царь–колокол; Tsar'-kolokol), also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is a 6.14-metre-tall (20.1 ft), 6.6-metre-diameter (22 ft) bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna Ivanovna, niece of Peter the Great.
It has never been in working order, suspended, nor rung.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tsar Bell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.