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Tsar Bell
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Key facts
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Designer
- Ivan Motorin
- Type
- Tower Bell
- Material
- Bell bronze
- Width
- 6.6 metres (22 ft)
- Height
- 6.14 metres (20.1 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tsar Bell with humans for perspective – broken piece is around the left, out of view The Tsar Bell (Russian: Царь–колокол; Tsar'-kolokol), also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is a 6.14-metre-tall (20.1 ft), 6.6-metre-diameter (22 ft) bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna Ivanovna, niece of Peter the Great.
It has never been in working order, suspended, nor rung.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tsar Bell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.