Tsar Cannon. Tsar Cannon - a brief history of the creation of the legendary gun Tsar Cannon was cast by a master

The Tsar Cannon has long been one of the symbols of Russia. And she also entered dozens of jokes, where the Tsar Cannon that never fired, the Tsar Bell that never rang, and some other non-working Russian miracle Yudo appear. In the second half of the 19th century, a number of works appeared that proved that the Tsar Cannon was as fake as its carriage. She never fired and was intended only to intimidate the Crimean Tatars. One of the proofs of the sham function of the gun is an elementary mathematical calculation showing that when fired with cast-iron cannonballs, it will be blown to pieces.

But many historians have doubted that 2400 pounds of copper was spent on the creation of a fake tool. And in the middle of the twentieth century, the historian A. Pozdneev wrote: “In 1591, when the Tatar hordes of Kazy-Girey approached Moscow, all Moscow artillery was put on alert, including Chokhov’s Tsar Cannon. It was installed in Kitay-gorod to protect the main Kremlin gates and the crossing over the Moscow River.

The point in the dispute whether the Tsar Cannon fired was put in 1980 by specialists from the Academy. Dzerzhinsky. They examined the channel of the gun and, based on a number of signs, including the presence of particles of burnt gunpowder, concluded that the Tsar Cannon was fired at least once.

STORY
In 1586, alarming news came to Moscow: the Crimean Khan was moving towards the city with his horde. In this regard, the Russian master Andrei Chokhov, on the orders of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, cast a huge gun, which was intended to protect the Kremlin.

A giant gun weighing 2,400 pounds (39,312 kg) was cast in 1586 at the Moscow Cannon Yard. The length of the Tsar Cannon is 5345 mm, the outer diameter of the barrel is 1210 mm, and the diameter of the thickening at the muzzle is 1350 mm. After the Tsar Cannon was cast and finished at the Cannon Yard, it was dragged and installed on a hill to protect the bridge over the Moscow River and the Spassky Gates and laid on the ground next to the Peacock cannon. To move the gun, ropes were tied to eight brackets on its trunk, 200 horses were harnessed to these ropes at the same time, and they rolled a cannon lying on huge logs - rollers.

In 1626, both cannons were lifted from the ground and installed on log cabins, densely packed with earth. These platforms were called roskats. One of them, with the Tsar Cannon and the Peacock, was placed at the Execution Ground, the other, with the Kashpir Cannon, at the Nikolsky Gate. In 1636, wooden roskats were replaced with stone ones, inside which warehouses and shops selling wine were arranged.

Currently, the Tsar Cannon is on a decorative cast-iron carriage, and nearby are decorative cast-iron cannonballs, which were cast in 1834 in St. Petersburg at Byrd's iron foundry. It is clear that it is physically impossible to shoot from this cast-iron carriage, or use cast-iron cannonballs (only lighter stone ones) - the Tsar Cannon will be blown to smithereens! It should be said right away that 4 cast-iron cores, folded in a pyramid near the foot of the cannon, perform a purely decorative function. They are hollow inside.

Documents about the testing of the Tsar Cannon or its use in combat conditions have not been preserved, which gave rise to lengthy disputes about its purpose. Most historians and military men in the 19th and early 20th centuries believed that the Tsar Cannon was a shotgun, that is, a weapon designed to shoot shot, which in the 16th-17th centuries consisted of small stones. A minority of specialists generally exclude the possibility combat use guns, believing that it was made specifically to frighten foreigners, especially the ambassadors of the Crimean Tatars. Recall that in 1571 Khan Devlet Giray burned down Moscow.

In the XVIII - early XX centuries, the Tsar Cannon was called a shotgun in all official documents. And only the Bolsheviks in the 1930s decided to raise her rank for propaganda purposes and began to call her a cannon.
In fact, this is not a cannon or a shotgun, but a classic bombard. It is customary to call a gun a gun with a barrel length of more than 40 calibers. And this gun has a length of only four calibers, the same as the bombard. Bombards are large-sized wall-beating weapons that destroy the fortress wall. The carriage was not used for them, since the barrel was simply buried in the ground, and two trenches were dug nearby for artillery crews, since such guns often burst. Let's pay attention - the Tsar Cannon does not have trunnions, with the help of which the gun is given an elevation angle. In addition, she has an absolutely smooth rear section of the breech, with which she, like other bombards, rested against a stone wall or log cabin. The first shells of bombards were round stones wrapped with ropes to smooth out irregularities in their shape.
So, the Tsar Cannon is a bombard designed to fire stone cannonballs. The weight of the stone core of the Tsar Cannon was about 50 pounds (819 kg), and the iron core of this caliber weighs 120 pounds (1.97 tons). As a shotgun, the Tsar Cannon was extremely ineffective. At the cost of expenses, instead of it, it was possible to make 20 small shotguns, which take much less time to load - not a day, but only 1-2 minutes.

Did the 350-890 mm caliber bombards fire buckshot or rubble? Theoretically, this is possible, but in practice it is very expensive and inefficient. Charging with a stone core lasted one and a half to two hours, and with crushed stone - several times longer. It was much more profitable to use buckshot from guns of small and medium caliber.
Large bombards were intended to break through the walls of enemy fortresses. But at the end of the 16th century in Russia there were dozens of much more effective, and most importantly, more mobile than the Tsar Cannon, wall-beating guns. Therefore, the Chokhov monster never left the walls of the Kremlin.
Instead of giant bombards, cannons began to perform the functions of battering rams. The invention of grained gunpowder, which was almost twice as effective as powder pulp, and the start of the production of cast-iron cores (for the first time in France in 1493) made it expedient to manufacture long (20 calibers or more) guns. Such guns had many names, of which one soon remained - a cannon.

Who wrote the Tsar Cannon into shotguns and why? The fact is that in Russia all the old guns that were in the fortresses, with the exception of mortars, were automatically transferred over time to shotguns, that is, in the event of a siege of the fortress, they had to shoot with shot (stone), and later - with cast-iron buckshot at the infantry marching to assault.
The fact is that a certificate on the state of artillery at the Moscow Arsenal in the early 1730s. they were given by clerks who were not very literate in history and artillery.
Those guns that they wrote down as cannons could fire cast-iron cannonballs; howitzers and mortars - bombs, that is, hollow cores stuffed with gunpowder. But the old guns could not fire either iron cannon balls or bombs, and stone cannon balls had long since been put out of use. According to the clerks, these old artillery systems could only shoot with “shot”, so they were written down as shotguns. It was not advisable to use old guns for firing cannonballs or bombs: what if the barrel would blow apart, and the new guns had much better ballistic data. So the Tsar Cannon was written into shotguns.

FIRST SHOT
But the tsar cannon, nevertheless, fired. It happened once. According to the LEGEND, after the impostor False Dmitry was exposed, he tried to escape from Moscow. But on the way he was brutally killed by an armed detachment.
The desecration of the body of False Dmitry showed how changeable people are in their sympathies: a carnival mask was put on the dead face, a pipe was inserted into the mouth, and for another three days the corpse was smeared with tar, sprinkled with sand and spat on. It was a "commercial execution", which was subjected only to persons of "vile" origin.

On the day of the election, Tsar Vasily ordered the removal of False Dmitry from the square. The corpse was tied to a horse, dragged out into the field and buried there by the side of the road.
Near the pit, which became the last refuge of the king, people saw blue lights rising straight from the ground.
The next day after the burial, the corpse was found near the almshouse. He was buried even deeper, but after a while, the body reappeared, but in a different cemetery. People said that his land does not accept.
Then the cold broke out, and all the greenery in the city withered.

The clergy were alarmed by these events and the gossip that accompanied them, and deliberated for a long time how to put an end to the dead sorcerer and sorcerer.
On the advice of the monks, the corpse of False Dmitry was dug out of the pit, dragged for the last time through the streets of the city, after which it was taken to the village of Kotly south of Moscow and burned there. After that, the ashes were mixed with gunpowder and fired from the Tsar Cannon towards Poland - from where False Dmitry came.

Another refutation of the use of the gun specifically for combat purposes is the absence of any traces in the barrel, including longitudinal scratches left by stone cannonballs.

At first, the gun was aimed at the walls, but then it was moved to Red Square to the Execution Ground. And by decree of Peter I, the cannon went into the yard. Now the giant gun is on. Each movement required the strength of at least 200 horses, which were tied to special brackets on the sides of the gun.

The Tsar Cannon is called so not only because of its size - it also has a portrait of Tsar Fedor, the son of Ivan IV, engraved on it. A lion on a gun carriage (barrel support for aiming at a target and accurate shooting) emphasizes high status tools. The carriage itself was cast only in 1835 at the Byrd factory in St. Petersburg.

Many people ask if the Tsar Cannon fired? Scientists say that she did make one test shot for zeroing.

Therefore, inside the muzzle there is a brand of the creator: then the master's nominal seal was put only after the tool was tested in practice. Therefore, we can safely say that the Tsar Cannon fired.

But such massive guns were intended for aimed shooting at the walls of fortresses with heavy cannonballs. But the four cores at the foot of the monument are decorative and hollow inside. Real cores of this size would weigh at least a ton each and would require a special mechanism to load them. Therefore, small stone cannonballs were used to charge the Tsar Cannon. And the real name of the gun is “Russian Shotgun”, or mortar (in military terminology), that is, it should stand with the muzzle up.

There is also a version that, by design, the Tsar Cannon is a bombard. Cannons include guns with a barrel length of 40 calibers and above, while the Tsar Cannon has a length of only 4 calibers, like a bombard. These battering rams were huge enough to destroy a fortress wall and did not have a gun carriage. The barrel was dug into the ground, and 2 more trenches were made nearby for artillery crews, since the guns were often torn apart. The rate of fire of the bombards was from 1 to 6 shots per day.

The Tsar Cannon monument has several copies.

In the spring of 2001, by order of the Moscow government, the Udmurt enterprise Izhstal made a copy of the Tsar Cannon from cast iron. The remake weighs 42 tons (each wheel weighs 1.5 tons, the barrel diameter is 89 cm). Moscow presented a copy to Donetsk, where it was installed in front of the city hall.

In 2007, in Yoshkar-Ola, on Obolensky-Nogotkov Square, at the entrance to the National Art Gallery, a copy of the Tsar Cannon, cast at the Butyakovsky Shipbuilding Plant, was placed.

And in Perm there is the world's largest 20-inch cast iron cannon. That's for sure combat weapon. It was made in 1868 by order of the Naval Ministry at the Motovilikha Iron Cannon Plant. During testing of the Perm Tsar Cannon, 314 shots were fired with cannonballs and bombs different systems.

A life-size model of a Perm cannon was exhibited in front of the Russian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873. She had to leave for Kronstadt to protect Petersburg from the sea. A carriage was already prepared there, but the giant returned to Perm. By that time, the engineer-inventor Pavel Obukhov from Zlatoust had developed a technology for the production of high-strength cannon steel and opened a plant in St. Petersburg, where lighter guns were cast. So the Perm Tsar Cannon is technically outdated and has become a monument.

What do you know about the history of the Tsar Cannon of the Moscow Kremlin?

Since the invention of gunpowder by mankind, the role of artillery on the battlefield has constantly increased. Cannons were first used to destroy the walls of enemy fortresses and other enemy fortifications, and then they began to be used to destroy enemy manpower. In the last century, artillery became a real "goddess of war", largely determining the outcome of two world wars.

Military history knows dozens of examples of unique artillery pieces, some of which had unusual characteristics, while others participated in interesting events that sometimes changed the fate of entire countries or the outcome of military conflicts. The most famous and unique Russian artillery piece is, without a doubt, the Tsar Cannon. It is considered the largest cannon in the world, and for this reason it is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

We can say that today the Tsar Cannon and the Tsar Bell are one of the main attractions of Moscow, few tourists leave without taking a selfie with these wonderful monuments of Russian antiquity. Children are especially happy with this curiosity.

The controversy surrounding the Tsar Cannon has not subsided for several centuries. It is not known for what purposes it was made, and did it ever shoot? Is this a prop or a real weapon created for the defense of Moscow in the Middle Ages? Who is he, the master who cast the Tsar Cannon? Where is this weapon located today?

Description

The Tsar Cannon is a medieval artillery piece, or more precisely, a bombard. It has a length of 5.34 m, the outer diameter of the barrel is 120 cm, the caliber of the gun is 890 mm, it weighs 39.31 tons. The barrel length is six calibers, therefore, according to modern classification The Tsar Cannon is a mortar.

The gun is completely made of bronze. It was made by Russian craftsman Andrei Chokhov (Chekhov) in 1586 at the Cannon Yard.

The master who cast the Tsar Cannon richly decorated it with various reliefs and inscriptions. On the right side of the muzzle of the gun there is a relief depicting Tsar Fyodor I Ioannovich, during whose reign this marvelous monument of foundry art was made. The Russian autocrat is depicted on a horse with a crown on his head, in one hand he holds a scepter. There are inscriptions on the barrel, from which you can find out when and by whom the Tsar Cannon was made. Some historians believe that the name of the cannon appeared precisely due to the image of the king on it. Although, most likely, it is associated with the huge size of the gun.

On each side of the barrel are four brackets designed to transport the gun.

The barrel bore of the Tsar Cannon is curious. Inside from the muzzle, it has the form of a cone, with an initial diameter of 900 mm and a final diameter of 825 mm. The charging chamber also resembles a cone: its initial diameter is 447 mm, and the final one (the one at the breech) is 467 mm. The bottom of the chamber is flat.

Story

As mentioned above, the Tsar Cannon was cast in 1586 by gunsmith Andrei Chokhov. At that time, raids by the Tatars were very frequent, which not only invaded Russian lands, but also captured and ravaged Moscow itself several times.

Therefore, it is believed that a gun of this size and caliber was made specifically to protect the capital from another Tatar raid.

Initially, the Tsar Cannon defended the bridge over the Moscow River and defended the Spassky Gates, later it was placed near the Execution Ground, installed on a special roll of logs. It was not possible to participate in the real battle of the Tsar Cannon.

During the reign of Peter I, the cannon was moved to the courtyard of the Arsenal, and later took its place at its gates.

In the 19th century (in 1835, to be more precise), a magnificent carriage was made for the Tsar Cannon, decorated with carved ornaments and cast-iron cannonballs. All this was done at the St. Petersburg plant of Byrd according to the sketches of the architect Bryullov.

In the 60s of the last century, the gun again had to change its location. Due to the construction of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Tsar Cannon was solemnly moved to the Ivanovskaya Square of the Kremlin. There she is to this day.

In 1980, they decided to repair the gun and sent it to the Serpukhov plant, where specialists examined it. It was then that it was established that the Tsar Cannon was still fired, probably it was during the zeroing of the gun. This is confirmed by the personal seal of the master, found on the inside of the barrel, in those days it was placed only after checking the gun. According to the poet Gumilyov, it was from the Tsar Cannon that the ashes of False Dmitry were fired towards the Polish border. When examining the gun barrel, particles of gunpowder and soot were found in it, which confirmed the fact that the gun was used for its intended purpose. Although, some authors doubt this, pointing to the tides of bronze in the barrel, which would inevitably fail at the first shot. In addition, the Tsar Cannon does not have an ignition hole, which raises many questions.

Usually, guns of this size and caliber were used in those days to shoot at the walls of enemy fortresses. A typical example of such a tactic is the use of huge cannon Seljuks during the siege of Constantinople in 1453. It was she who played a decisive role in the fall of Constantinople.

Bombards were laid on special wooden platforms, and piles were driven in from behind to stop when firing. An artillery crew hid next to the cannon in the trenches during the shot, because the guns of that time were very often torn apart.

An attentive observer will immediately notice that the Tsar Cannon does not have trunnions, with the help of which the elevation angle is given when shooting with modern guns. The bombards were fired with stone cannonballs, the process of loading them took hours, or even whole days. So using such a weapon on the battlefield against infantry or cavalry is extremely problematic. Those cast-iron cores (they are also hollow inside), which now lie next to the gun, are nothing more than props. When you try to shoot them, the gun is guaranteed to break.

Gunsmiths of the 19th and 20th centuries generally believed that the Tsar Cannon was made to intimidate the enemy, so to speak, to suppress his morale and doubted that this gun had ever been fired.

In the documents of the XVIII-XIX centuries, the Tsar Cannon is often called a "shotgun". Shot earlier, artillerymen called buckshot, which consisted of small stones. However, as a shotgun, this weapon is extremely ineffective. In short, for a shotgun, the Tsar Cannon has too big size. The inventories of the Moscow Arsenal at the beginning of the 18th century indicated the calibers of various shotguns. The largest of these was 25 pounds. However, the most numerous was an even smaller caliber - 2 pounds. In the same inventory, the Tsar Cannon is also indicated, its caliber was 1500 pounds.

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Address: Russia, Moscow, Moscow Kremlin
Date of creation: 1586
Characteristics: length - 5.34 m, barrel diameter - 120 cm, caliber - 890 mm, weight - 39.31 tons
Coordinates: 55°45"05.2"N 37°37"04.8"E

The Tsar Cannon is considered one of the main attractions of the Kremlin in Moscow. This is the greatest monument of Russian artillery. There are few foreign tourists who left Moscow without looking at the cannon.

Being the largest caliber gun in the world, the Tsar Cannon is in the Guinness Book of Records.

History of the Tsar Cannon

In 1586, alarming news came to Moscow: the Crimean Khan was moving towards the city with his horde. In this regard, the Russian master Andrey Chokhov cast a huge gun that fired stone buckshot and was intended to protect the Kremlin. Initially, the gun was installed on a hill to protect the bridge across the Moscow River and the defense of the Spassky Gate.

However, the khan did not reach Moscow, so the townspeople did not see how the gun, called the tsar cannon for its size, beats. In the XVIII century. the cannon was moved to the Moscow Kremlin, and since then it has not left its limits. In that place, the tsar-cannon stood until the beginning of the 18th century, until Peter I conceived the construction of the Zeikhgauz (Arsenal of the Moscow Kremlin), organizing a weapons storage for ancient and trophy exhibits in it.

First, the gun was placed in the courtyard of the Arsenal, and then it guarded its main gate. In 1835, the gun was erected on a new cast-iron carriage, made according to the sketches of Academician Bryullov A.P.. The Tsar Cannon, along with other ancient guns, was placed along the Armory. In 1960, the construction of the Kremlin Palace began. The old building of the Armory was demolished and the gun was again delivered to the Arsenal.

Closer to 1980, the Tsar Cannon, along with the gun carriage and cannonballs, was taken out for a planned restoration. They were returned to their original place in 1980.

Today, the gun can be viewed on Ivanovskaya Square. Nearby is the bell tower of Ivan the Great and the Church of the Twelve Apostles.

Pride of the Artillery Collection

The Tsar Cannon is located on a cast-iron carriage, which performs a decorative function. The cannon itself was cast in bronze. Nearby are decorative cast iron cores. On the right side of the cannon, Fyodor Ivanovich is depicted on horseback. The prince has a crown on his head, and he holds a scepter in his hands. Next to the image it is written that this is the Grand Duke Fedor Ivanovich, who is the Sovereign Autocrat of Great Russia. It is believed that the cannon could have received its name due to the image of the prince. In addition to the Tsar Cannon, you can find another name - "Russian Shotgun". This name is due to the fact that the gun was cast specifically for firing shots, the so-called buckshot.

On the left side of the cannon it is written that its author is "Litecs Ondrey Chokhov". The gun barrel is decorated with beautiful ornaments. The gun carriage deserves special attention. To emphasize the high status of the tool, the casters depicted the king of animals - a lion. The gun carriage is covered with an extraordinary weave of plants, among which is the symbolic image of a lion fighting a snake. The spokes of the large wheels are made in the form of intertwining leaves.

The gun is striking in its size:

• Length - 500 cm;
• Barrel diameter - 120cm;
• Caliber - 890 mm;
• Weight - almost 40 tons.

The force of 200 horses was used to move the cannon. According to some experts, this huge gun never fired. And it was made solely in order to only scare strangers, in particular the Crimean Khan.

The Secret of the Tsar Cannon

This is a fairly strong artillery piece of the Middle Ages. However, looking at it and at the cannonballs located nearby, it becomes clear that it is simply impossible to shoot from such a weapon. So what is this weapon on display: props or not? It should be said right away that 4 cast-iron cores, folded in a pyramid near the foot of the cannon, perform a purely decorative function. Inside they are hollow, the weight of one such core is 1970 kg, and the weight of a stone one is 0.819 tons. It is physically impossible to shoot from such a carriage and use cast-iron cores, since the gun would most likely be torn apart. In addition, no documents have been preserved about any tests of the Tsar Cannon and battles with its participation. Therefore, today there are many contradictions around the purpose of the tool.

Until the 20th century, many military men and historians believed that this was a shotgun, that is, a weapon for buckshot, which at that time consisted of small stones. In 1930, the Bolsheviks decided to call the shotgun a cannon. They did this to increase the "rank" of the gun, for the purpose of propaganda.

The secret of this exhibit was revealed only in 1980, when it needed to be restored.

The gun was removed from the carriage and placed on a large trailer using a large truck crane. Then the weapon was taken to Serpukhov, where it was restored. Simultaneously with the repair work, specialists from the Artillery Academy examined the exhibit, made appropriate measurements, but no one saw the report. However, the surviving drafts allow us to conclude that the Tsar Cannon is not a cannon at all.

The secret of the weapon lies in its design. At the very beginning, the diameter of the channel into which the projectile is placed is 90 cm, and at the end it is 82 cm. At a distance of 31.9 cm, the channel is cone-shaped. Next is the charging chamber. The diameter at the beginning is 44.7 cm and at the end 46.7 cm. The length of such a chamber is 173 cm. The flat bottom is characteristic. In this regard, it was stated that the Tsar Cannon is an ordinary bombard, which involves firing with stone cannonballs. A gun is usually called a gun with a barrel length of more than 40 calibers. And this gun has a length of only four calibers, the same as the bombard. As a shotgun, such a weapon is extremely inefficient.

Bombards are large-sized wall-beating weapons that destroy the fortress wall. The carriage was not used for them, since the barrel was simply buried in the ground, and two trenches were dug nearby for artillery crews, since such guns often burst. The rate of fire of such weapons is up to 6 shots per day.

When examining the canal of the gun, particles of gunpowder were found. This suggests that the gun fired at least once. Of course, this could have been a trial, so to speak, test shot, since the gun did not leave Moscow. And who in the city limits could be shot from it? Another refutation of the use of the tool is the absence of any traces in the barrel, including longitudinal scratches left by stone cannonballs.

The legend of the Tsar Cannon and the impostor False Dmitry

According to legend, the Tsar Cannon, nevertheless, fired. It happened once. After the impostor False Dmitry was exposed, he tried to escape from Moscow. But on the way he was brutally killed by an armed detachment. The next day after the burial, the corpse was found near the almshouse. He was buried even deeper, but after a while, the body reappeared, but in a different cemetery.

Photo Tsar Cannon (Moscow). Tsar Cannon address: Moscow, Ivanovskaya Square

The Tsar Cannon in Moscow was used in the Middle Ages as an artillery gun, it was called a bombard, in our time it is a monument to Russian artillery, as well as a monument to foundry art. The total length of the tsar cannon is 5.34 meters, the diameter of the gun barrel from the outside is 120 centimeters, the diameter of the patterned belt around the muzzle is 134 centimeters, the caliber of the gun is 890 millimeters (this is 35 inches), the total mass of the gun is 39.31 tons or 2400 pounds.

Master who cast the tsar cannon

The Tsar Cannon was cast in bronze in Moscow by the outstanding Russian cannon maker Andrei Chokhov in 1586 at the Cannon Yard (the center of cannon production in Moscow, almost everyone was cast in it). It was not easy to cast such dimensions, but the master who cast it had more than 60 years of experience and, according to the documents, cast about 20 heavy guns. The documentation says that the first work was done by master A. Chekhov in 1568, and the last in 1629.

cast painting

There are poured inscriptions on it above the front right bracket:

By the grace of God, Tsar and Grand Duke Fyodor Ivanovich Sovereign and Autocrat of All Great Russia

And also 2 more phrases are written on the top of the trunk:

By command of the faithful and Christ-loving Tsar and Grand Duke Fyodor Ivanovich, Sovereign Autocrat of All Great Russia under his pious and Christ-loving Empress Grand Duchess Irina Right side

This cannon was quickly merged in the most famous city of Moscow in the summer of 7094, in the third summer of his state. Andrey Chokhov made the cannon from the left side

There is a version that the name of the gun comes from the image of Tsar Fedor the first on it, but most likely it was named because of its solid size.

How many cores does the tsar cannon have

The Tsar Cannon in Moscow stands on a concrete platform and has four cannonballs cast to match its caliber. The cores are cast from cast iron and each weighs 120 pounds if counted in kilograms, then a stone core would weigh 819 kg, and a cast iron one 1970 kg, and the weight of gunpowder for one charge is 30 pounds.

The Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon are the most interesting monuments of Moscow and have been attracting the attention of tourists for many centuries.

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