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The Moscow Kremlin, Part Two: The Tower-chambers and Palaces
30 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 14-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 483C
This film highlights a few of the especially notable features of the Kremlin's dense cluster of buildings. We begin with the fifteenth-century gold-domed Grand Ducal Palace, with its white-faced stone walls which reflect the Italian origins of its architect. (The cosmopolitan nature of European culture from the Middle Ages right up to the late Renaissance is repeatedly seen in the films on Moscow in this section.) This building, we learn, witnessed many momentous decisions in Russian political history, including the unification of Russia and the Ukraine. We are taken through the `Golden Grille,' with its magnificent metalwork, which guards the seventeenth-century Tirimar Chamber. We enter the nineteenth-century Kremlin Hall, 145 feet high (and only two stories), which contains an incomparable collection of furniture, and decoration bewildering in its eclectic style, from classical and baroque to imitations of the French châteaux of Louis XIV. The film sketches the historical events to which such buildings provided the backdrop - right up to the Victory Parade of 1945.
The Kremlin, Moscow
Credits -
Director/Script
Vladimir Benidiktov
Art Video International
Also available in Russian
