The Sorcerer's Tower

Here in the XVI century was the border of the city: the capital's huts ended, and then there was the Trinity Road. Here the watchtower was built, initially of wood, and under Peter I of stone, according to all the rules of Italian serfdom: round, with a through passage. Peter's colleague, the sorcerer-warlock Yakov Bruce, settled here. From an unprecedented 60-meter height, the alchemist watched the stars through a telescope and melted lead into gold. The magician headed the "Neptunian Society" for the study of science and mysticism. And Muscovites believed that Bruce owned a secret book that opens all the gates and reveals all the treasures, and before his death he walled it up in the tower wall. Later, Stalin ordered the tower to be dismantled brick by brick, trying to find the treasure, but hopes were not fulfilled.

Since then, the shadow of a dry old man in a wig flashes in the doorways of Sretenka in the hope that the tower will be rebuilt again.