Pavlinsky Tower
Tobolsk, Tyumen region, Russia
Description:
Pavlinskaya Tower is one of two round towers in the Tobolsk Kremlin, which have survived since the XVII century and retained their original appearance. Its construction, which took place in 1688, was headed by Gerasim Sharypin. It was an ordinary (not coal) tower, and that is why it was quite small, but at its top there were round holes-holes for shooting.
Why the tower was named Pavlinskaya is unknown, but there is a hypothesis that it was named after Metropolitan Paul, who built during his reign a stone cathedral in Tobolsk, as well as stone walls and towers of the Sophia court. In the 1720s, on the west side of the Pavlinskaya Tower, a jagged wall was added, which has survived to our days in its original form.