the Tsar Bell. Historians know that in 1736 he made a bell for the Epiphany Monastery. In 1737, he also cast a 1.8-tonne bell for the Church of Archangel Gabriel. Both of these bells, however, were destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s. See also List of Russian inventors References Russian bell makers Russian cannon makers Russian inventors Motorin, Ivan Feodorovich Russian families