From the 17th century till 1935 on the Saviors Tower, Trinity Tower, Borovitskaya and Nicholas Tower of the Moscow Kremlin there were gilded two-headed copper imperial eagles.

🔻In October 1935, copper five-pointed stars and scythes and hammers, inlaid with Ural gems, were placed on the towers.

🔻In November 1937, the gem-stones were replaced by new ruby stars with internal illumination provided by special lamps. A fifth tower - Vodovzvodnaya (Water-Raising Tower) - joined the other "starred" towers.

🔻The stars were designed with double glazing. The inner surface was made of 2 mm thick frosted glass. Without the frosted glass, the stars would have looked black during the day.

🔻The Kremlin ruby stars are of different sizes. The length of the rays are from 3,75 to 3m.

🔻Each star has special ball bearings at its base. Thanks to them, the one-ton star can rotate in the wind like a weathervane.

🔻During the war, the stars were covered and the lights were switched off.

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Peter the Great's Handwriting and Artificial Intelligence

🔻Tsar Peter the Great left a very rich written legacy, but there is one problem: most of it has not yet been deciphered, since Peter wrote like a chicken scratched with its paw.

🔻Unexpectedly, modern science came to the rescue — the Digital Peter neural network, which easily and effortlessly deciphers the manunoscripts of the great Russian tsar.

🔻This neural network was developed by scientists from the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who trained it on an array of data from already deciphered lines of Peter I's handwriting.

🔻Having studied these examples, Digital Peter learned to recognize the illegible imperial handwriting.

🔻So it is quite possible that in the near future our history textbooks will be filled with new interesting historical facts about the Peter the Great era.

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