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Destination
MOSCOW,
Tour Guide RUSSIA

The Kremlin

Often used as a byword for the Russian

state itself, the Kremlin has been at the
● Russia
● Moscow
centre of Russian power, culture and
heritage for centuries
01 Napoleon defed

View of the Kremlin The Borovitskaya Gate Tower was severely
from the Moscow river damaged by Napoleon’s troops in 1812, as
they attempted to blow it up during the
army’s retreat. Hundreds of artillery
pieces captured during the Grand
Armeé’s humiliating retreat are

still on display throughout the
grounds of the Kremlin.

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02 A visit from the West 02
On 28 March 1987, UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher
visited the USSR for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. She
was received in St George’s Hall, one of the palace’s five
reception halls and the largest room in the Kremlin Palace.
The hall is named after one of the orders of the Russian
Empire, Georgievsky. Thatcher’s visit was a landmark in the
warming relations between Russia and the West.
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In the 16th century, Ivan IV
held his court here, in the Palace of the
Facets, and some 400 years later Mikhail
Gorbachev entertained US president
Ronald Reagan on his visit to Moscow.

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