The Tsar Cannon is a one-off cannon piece cast in 1586 in Russia by famed Cannon maker Andrey Chokhov. A display piece, located by the Kremlin in Moscow, the Tsar Cannon has only ever been fired once but its performance is unknown.
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| - The Tsar Cannon is a one-off cannon piece cast in 1586 in Russia by famed Cannon maker Andrey Chokhov. A display piece, located by the Kremlin in Moscow, the Tsar Cannon has only ever been fired once but its performance is unknown.
- The Tsar Cannon is located just past the Kremlin Armory, facing towards the Kremlin Senate. The very low ratio of the length of its barrel to its caliber makes it technically not a cannon, but a stylized mortar. The Tsar Cannon is made of bronze and weighs 39.312 tonnes and has a length of . Its bronze-cast barrel has an internal diameter of , and an external diameter of . The barrel has eight cast rectangular brackets for use in transporting the gun, which is mounted on a stylized cast iron gun carriage with two wheels. The barrel is decorated with relief images, including an equestrian image of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich. The cannon-style gun carriage, added in 1835, is purely decorative. This weapon was never intended to be transported on or fired from this gun carriage.
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| - A view of the Tsar Cannon, showing its massive bore and the Lion's head cast into the carriage.
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| - The Tsar Cannon is located just past the Kremlin Armory, facing towards the Kremlin Senate. The very low ratio of the length of its barrel to its caliber makes it technically not a cannon, but a stylized mortar. The Tsar Cannon is made of bronze and weighs 39.312 tonnes and has a length of . Its bronze-cast barrel has an internal diameter of , and an external diameter of . The barrel has eight cast rectangular brackets for use in transporting the gun, which is mounted on a stylized cast iron gun carriage with two wheels. The barrel is decorated with relief images, including an equestrian image of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich. The cannon-style gun carriage, added in 1835, is purely decorative. This weapon was never intended to be transported on or fired from this gun carriage. The spherical cast-iron projectiles located in front of the cannon - each of which weighs approximately 1 ton, were produced in 1834 as a decoration. They are too large to have been used in the Tsar Cannon, which would have fired 800 kg stone grapeshot rather than cannonballs. According to legend, the cannonballs were manufactured in St. Petersburg, and were intended to be a humorous addition and a symbol of the friendly rivalry between Moscow and St. Petersburg. File:TsarCannon.JPG File:Царь-пушка (Moscow clad in snow).jpg|Tsar Cannon in 1908
- The Tsar Cannon is a one-off cannon piece cast in 1586 in Russia by famed Cannon maker Andrey Chokhov. A display piece, located by the Kremlin in Moscow, the Tsar Cannon has only ever been fired once but its performance is unknown.
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