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Tsar Cannon
Sign in to savelarge artillery piece from 1586
Key facts
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Designer
- Andrey Chokhov
- Type
- Cannon
- Material
- Bronze
- Length
- 5.34 metres (17.5 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Side view of the Tsar Cannon The Tsar Cannon (Russian: Царь-пушка, Tsar'-pushka) is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. Mostly of symbolic impact, it was never used in a war. However, the cannon bears traces of at least one firing. Per the Guinness Book of Records it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tsar Cannon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.