Tower “Red gate”

The tower "Red gate" was on the highest place of the Kremlin hillock in a northwest wall. The Volga coast behind walls кремля at Red gate was high, the slope is abrupt. Ladders which nowadays conduct to a tower "Red gate", in olden time did not exist. The name Red gate have received from астраханцев as the best, elegant. After all in old times definition meant "red" "beautiful fine".