TSAR'S HIDING PLACE
POUND BY SUBWAY CREW
MOSCOW, Nov. 20
An underground retreat built- by Russia’s Tsars 400 years ago, containing a supply' of cannon balls, was discovered by workers digging an extension of the Moscow subway. The single chamber, large enough to accommodate 200 persons, was situated G 5 feet beneath, the site of the old Kitai wall, razed by the Bolsheviks. w wall surrounded inner Moscow, known as tlie Kitai Gorod, or fortified city. Professor Rtemi Arcechovsky of the Academy of- History expressed the opinion the room was built in 1535. Th? remains of the walls and the outer fortress built in the sixteenth century by Tsar Feodor and razed in the eighteenth century by the Empress Elizabeth were also discovered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12750, 4 January 1936, Page 5
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