This photochrome print of the Moscow Kremlin is part of “Views of Architecture and Other Sites Primarily in Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). The Kremlin is the seat of the Russian government. The word kremlin comes from the Russian for “fortification” or “citadel.” The first settlement on this site, a wooden fort, was built by the founder of Moscow, Yuri Dolgoruky, in 1147, but the structure was not given the name Kremlin until 1331. As described by Baedeker’s Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking (1914), “[in] the centre of the city, on a hill rising 130 ft. above the Moskva and dominating the whole of Moscow, rises the Kremlin, in which all the reminiscences of Moscow’s past are united. For the Russian the Kremlin is a holy spot. It is in the Kremlin that the power of the Tzars first receives the sanction of the church... ‘There is nothing above Moscow,’ says a proverb, ‘except the Kremlin, and nothing above the Kremlin except Heaven’.”