The Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin was designed by the Milanese architect Pietro Antonio Solari for Grand Prince Ivan III. The infobox and text agree on 1491. It was originally called the Frolovskaya Tower, after a church that no longer stands. The page places the clock's installation anywhere between 1491 and 1585.
The article names no style or building materials. The tower is 233 feet (71 m) tall, and the clock face is 20 feet (6 m) across. A hipped roof was added in 1624 to 1625 by Bazhen Ogurtsov and Christopher Galloway.
A drawbridge was added in 1508, and Peter the Great added a redan. Stalin replaced the two-headed eagle with a red star in 1936. The gate was closed to traffic in 1999, and an hourly guard ceremony began in 2016. The article gives no hours, admission or access rules.
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