"Where else to look for the oldest street in Moscow, if not in the Kremlin? Because the Kremlin is the ancestral home of Moscow, from it - from a high hill above the river and once our ancient city began. However, it is not at all easy to find the first street in the Kremlin: it burned so many times over its centuries, it was destroyed, built and rebuilt... There are no more streets as such here - some names have survived in time, but the places where they ran are preserved and recognized. Here is Borovitskaya Street: it may well be considered one of the oldest in Moscow. In the XIV century, where the Borovitskaya Tower now rises, there was a chopped church of John the Baptist, which was on the forest - the ancient pines were buzzing then in the Moscow wind."