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Tula Kremlin by the Upa River, samovar metalwork, and the silhouette of an arms-making city.

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A route view of Tula: the red-brick Kremlin wall by the Upa, a brass samovar accent, and the silhouette of the helmet-shaped museum.

Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons

From the Tula Samovar Museum through the Kremlin and Metallistov Street to the helmet-shaped building

3 h 20 min without major exhibitions; up to 6 h with museums2.0 km
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  1. Assumption Cathedral: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    Links the history of the cathedral’s closure with the original murals, damaged during its use as a warehouse.

  2. Epiphany Cathedral: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    It shows how the second fundraising effort finally gave Tula a winter church and what was later done to the building's volume.

  3. Kazan Embankment: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    It will restore a vanished church to the embankment and examine the case after which it was never reopened.

  4. Metallistov Street and Belolipetskys' House: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    It will distinguish the history of the flour-milling merchants from the gingerbread business of their relative, which stood at a different address.

  5. Nikolo-Zaretsky Church and the Demidov Necropolis: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    Explains the unusual separation between the church, the bell tower, and the family crypt of the first Demidovs.

  6. Odoev Gate of the Tula Kremlin: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    It will explain why the southern tower has retained a top that the other Kremlin towers do not have.

  7. Tula Samovar Museum: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    Shows how a temporary exhibition acquired a permanent home after the original museum plan fell through.

  8. Tula State Museum of Weapons: story on the “Kremlin and Zarechye: Samovars, Churches, Weapons” route

    It will conclude the route with the story of a building whose outlines the director lived to see, but not its completed exhibition.

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