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Arsenal

TIME : 2016/2/19 0:05:15

North of the State Kremlin Palace is the 18th-century Arsenal, commissioned by Peter the Great to house workshops and depots for guns and weaponry. An unrealised plan at the end of the 19th century was to open a museum of the Napoleonic Wars in the Arsenal. Now housing the Kremlin Guard, the building is ringed with 800 captured Napoleonic cannons.