Everyone knows the Tsar Bell , which is in the Moscow Kremlin . It turns out that this giant and there are many versions of scientific and pseudo-scientific , and fairy-tale story is legend.Ofitsialnaya . Cast the Tsar Bell in 1733 the bell master Ivan MOTORIN with his son Michael. The first attempt was unsuccessful. Two years later recast Michael repeated . This attempt was more successful , however, when the bell was still in treatment in the home hole, there was a fire on the cold water in fire arrived on the bell , the last of it cracked and broke off a piece weighing 12 tons. In the land of the bell lay 103 years before it was picked up and set on a pedestal by the famous architect Montferrand . The height of the bell 6 m 14 cm, diameter of 6 m 60 cm , weight 201 tons 924 kg (12,327 pounds). Two legends are about how it turned out chipped piece . Here's the first . Bell has cooled off in the casting pit , when in May 1737 in Moscow started the fire . Cold water, which was poured flames got into the pit. Then the bell cracked , and he broke off a piece weighing 12 tons. The second states that cools down in the pit of the bell fell on top of the belfry bell , plucked from the fire , and damaged it in padenii.Tak called " Moscow " Legend says that the bell was cast in the days of the reign of Peter I. Returning to Moscow after the Battle of Poltava , the king ordered in honor of the glorious victory of calls to all the bells in Moscow . The only one not rang the Tsar Bell ringers as tried to shake his tongue . Angered , Peter gave them to help a whole company of guards , the clapper broke , but he never rang. " Stubborn King was ," — said the people. In the hands of Peter had a club , which he took from the Swedish King Charles XII at Poltava . In a rage, he struck the bell , "Here you for what you did not want people to notify about my victory! " Then the blow broke off a piece of the Tsar Bell , and he hummed and went to zemlyu.A Old Believers and sectarians there is a legend that the Tsar- bell will ring and he will rise on the day of the Last suda.Poslednyaya in chronological metamorphosis happened to the Tsar Bell refers to 1941 . The Tsar Bell painted the paint to not shine at night and did not let hum German bombers because inside it from June to September was posted communications center Kremlin polka.O current state of the Tsar Bell can be read here .
