What happened to the original Kremlin eagles?

After the revolution of 1917, the new Communist rulers had to live for quite a few years with the Czarist symbols, the two-headed eagles, right outside their office windows. The huge gilded eagles were pinned on the top of Kremlin towers. read more

The huge gilded eagles were pinned on the top of Kremlin towers. The Soviet Russia simply did not have machines that could take them down without damaging the towers. First in 1935, gilded Communist stars with sickles and hammers on them supplanted the eagles. read more

Grand Prince Ivan III organised the deconstruction of the Kremlin, inviting a number of skilled architects from Renaissance Italy, including Petrus Antonius Solarius, who designed the new Kremlin wall and its towers, and Marcus Ruffus who designed the new palace for the prince. read more