The Leaning Tower of Nevyansk

The Leaning Tower of Nevyansk
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I like a nice little mystery. According to the Wikipedia article, little is known about the purpose of this tower at Nevyansk in the Urals or whether it was originally intended to lean. The article includes the following sentences:

In The purpose of the tower
Historians are still debating about the exact purpose of the Nevyansk Tower.
and in The purpose of inclination
One of the legends has it that the inclination of the tower was an idea of some talented architect.
See the article for the full text.

Posted December 2017