The Sukharev Tower was a Moscow landmark until its destruction by Soviet authorities in 1934. Tsar Peter I of Russia had the tower built in the Moscow baroque style at the intersection of the Garden R
The Sukharev Tower in 1872, painting by Alexei Savrasov.
Count James or Jacob Daniel Bruce was a Russian general, statesman, diplomat and scientist of Scottish descent, one of the chief associates of Peter the Great; Bruce was president of the Collegium of