Show V H f VS inclosure has long been crowning place of azars czars ivan or beai tower contains 36 belli i in front of the arsenal can still do seen the great gun moscow the kremlin like the for bidden city in is by a vail entirely independent ot that en circling tho city bays william elsner in the national geographic magazine it marks the part which escaped the great conflagration when the outlying districts of moscow were burned by the russians who were besieged by napoleon the present wall replaced one of oak some years ago which like the great wall of china was erected as a defense from the tartars within athla inclosure Is the imperial palace tho treasury tha arsenal and throe cathedrals which for centuries have respectively been the places ol 01 the crowning the marrying and the burying of the azars czars of this great na lion the inclosure also contains a convent and many great monuments on ono side tar below flows the from which the city takes its jiame prom the rivers opposite bank the view of tha splendor of this collection of buildings Is unsurpassed probably in the world doe an inclosure of the dimensions of thai described by the wall of the kremlin contain precious stones approximating the alue of those displayed here it has been aptly stated that they should not ba counted by thousands but measured by the peck to guard them soldiers are constantly in and around these buildings the ivan or bell tower is the most conspicuous structure in the inclosure and contains 36 bells two of which are of silver the largest ot the col 65 tons this large bell seems to lose its magnitude when we come to examine the one resting on a stone foundation just outside the tower which weighs tons it was originally intended to hang within the walls but jooa aft ter it was cast a fire destroyed the building which sheltered it causing nine gaping cracks and the displacement of a piece of the bell weighing nine tons owing to this misfortune ts tongue has ever remained mute not far from the bell stands the arsenal in front of which Is a als play of bronze cannon trophies captured from the turks and french prominent among these Is the great gun its mouth having a diameter of three feet surrounded by so thin a shell that regard for safety probably accounts tor the tact that it like the great bell has never spoken these two curios coupled with mos cow s prevalent paving material are spoken of as the three ancient won ders of the city the heaviest boll which never was rung and the largest cannon which never was fired and the greatest amount of cobblestone pavement chich ought to be fired |