At the entrance to the Alexander Kremlin immediately overlooking the Crucifixion Church-Bell Tower.
According to legend, hence even during the reign of Ivan the terrible has gone Russian Aeronautics. Servant Nikita jumped from the bell tower on homemade wooden wings with feathers and miraculously landed on the river Bank. The hero paid for this daring act with his head, because it was not allowed for a man to soar like a bird.
Crucifixion Church is inside the building with a bell tower, it is also covered with dark legends about the massacre of the harsh king. Rumor has it that in small halls of the Church were organized torture, but the cries of the unfortunate voices were drowned under the thick walls.
In the middle ages it was a watch tower. After the move of Tsar Ivan the terrible to the Alexander Sloboda, the Palace was so overgrown with surrounding buildings and forest that the visibility from the tower fell heavily, and it was difficult to conduct patrols from there. Therefore, the building was built and turned into a Church with a bell tower. Ivan Vasilyevich sons rang for Matins 500-pound bell-"the Evangelist".