Welcome to Russian History Retold.

Episode 298, the Kremlin.

Last time, we ended our three-part

last time, we ended our three-part series

on the People's perspectives on three of the major events of late Russian history

and that would be the revolution, the Crimean War and the Russian Civil War.

Today I'm going to cover a subject I've wanted to do for a very long time,

the iconic Moscow place known as the Kremlin. The Kremlin, which translates into the term fortress inside a city.

And aside from St. Basil Red Square within the Kremlin.

Spread out over 28 hectares or 70 acres. Kremlin. and gardens while sitting on the Barovitsky hills.

Historians say that the Kremlin has three phases.

The original wooden Kremlin, the Renaissance Kremlin,

and the modern Kremlin. The first known construction of the

walls that would later become known as the Kremlin began in 1156 during the reign

of Prince Yuri Dulgaruki.

It would become the home of the heads of Muscovy and then the czars of Russia until the

time of Peter the Great when the seat of government moved to St. Petersburg.

It would return as the home of the Soviet government under Lenin and remain so to this day in modern Russia.

Its strategic location overlooks the Moskva and the Neglinaya rivers.

The Neglinaya is currently flowing underground and serves as a tributary to the Muskva.

The Muskva river flows into Russia's major waterways, including the Volga River, as we learned earlier, and the Caspian Sea, making

it the crossroads between the north and south of Russia.

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