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Heaviest bell in the world
Record
201,924 kg
445,166 lb
- Record holder
- Tsar Bell
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What to remember
Peter the Great had a niece, Empress Anna Ivanovna, and she was the one who commissioned the Tsar Bell. Cast in 1735 by the workshop of Ivan Feodorovich Motorin, the bronze bell weighs 201,924 kg, making it the heaviest bell in the world.
Casting required a team of 200 men, led by Ivan Motorin and then by his son Mikhail. The bell is 6.6 m in diameter and carries portraits and inscriptions by several decorators. It is sometimes called Kolokol III because it is the third generation of the bell.
It is broken: it has never been hung or rung. It is on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of heaviest bells” (revision used 1375826308). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Presidential Press and Information Office, Photo licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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