![]() He is depicted with a crown on his head and a scepter in his hand, sitting on horseback. There is an image of the tsar on the barrel of the gun. The cannon was made by the Russian bronze caster Andrey Chokhov in Moscow.Ĭhokhov made this grand cannon during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, a son of Ivan the Terrible. It’s also worth keeping in mind that the mortars were produced in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the use of (relatively) modern technology, while the Tsar Cannon was cast in bronze and dates from 1586. However, these weapons are mortars, not cannons, and that means the Tsar’s Cannon at the Kremlin is an unsurpassed piece of artillery. Larger artillery weapons do exist, such as the Mallet’s Mortar in the United Kingdom and Little David in the United State, which both have calibers of 914 millimeters. The Tsar Cannon’s caliber is 890 millimeters. The cannon itself weighs almost 40 tons and takes 200 horses to transport. It was designed to shoot cannonballs that each weighed 800 kilograms. The Tsar Cannon at the Moscow Kremlin is designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest bombard (a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones) by caliber in the world.
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