Самое Жуткое Место Кремля, о Котором Молчат Туристы и Учебники

You've held it in your hands hundreds of times and never even suspected you were touching one of the darkest places in Russian history. The Kremlin's Konstantino-Eleninskaya Tower, the very one featured on the hundred-ruble note, has lived three lives—each more terrifying than the last. In 1380, Dmitry Donskoy led his regiments to Kulikovo Field through these gates. A hundred years later, the Italian Pietro Antonio Solari transformed them into a death trap from which no enemy ever escaped. And in the seventeenth century, the formidable Razboiny Prikaz established itself here, and the tower forever bore the popular name of "Pytoshnaya" (torture tower). In this episode, you'll learn the true origins of the expressions "to find out the whole truth" and "to get to the bottom of it," what ghost haunted the wall in the 1950s, why falcons live in the tower today, and which of the Tsar's closest confidants ended their days in its dungeons. The true story of a place we pass by every day, unaware of its terrible secrets. Watch until the end—we've saved the most unexpected for the end. Like, subscribe to the channel, and ring the bell to stay up to date with new stories.