The first and most awesome of Moskov’s seven Stalin-Gothic Skyscrapers, or Vysotnie Zdaniya as they are known - skyscraper being a capitalist ideal - designed by Chechulin and Rostovskiy, built in the early 1950’s by German POWs and Russian convicts.

It was Binah who inspired the construction of this and other "wedding-cake" towers through Lictors under her service. Her inspiration for doing so was the failing of religion in the 20th Century, and the growth of power through politics - namely hers, Communism, which she used to bond the people to the Illusion. Fearing a possible fall of Communism she had her Lictors erect these seven apartments in a semblance of the Demiurge’s seven seals. In each tower she infused an essence of her power so the base of Communism would be strong. But not even her power could consolidate Communism and it fell.

One of the few Lictors still serving Binah saw an easy way to build the first tower without his direct overseeing of the project - that was to recruit the lost Seraphim, Sandolphin - once Binah’s chief angel. Sandolphin lead the workers to build the mighty edifice that still dominates the Moskov skyline. But there were problems. The POWs began to awaken with the presence of the seal so close, fracturing the Illusion. Sandolphin stopped the first of these POWs, burying them within the apartment walls. Then the angel fled the project, know aware that he was being used.

The POWs continued their work without the instruction of the angel. They found some of their companion’s bodies secreted within the walls and suspected Sandolphin. Now, partially awakening with the seal like those before them the POWs hunted the Angel and found his blasphemous actions in the streets below. Together they dragged him into the towers, tore at his wings and cast him from the heights to the ground below, his curse against Binah echoing back at the them from the heights.

They nearly finished the tower, now nearly fully awakened but under the glamour of Binah and Cabbalism, of which the imitation seal consisted of. But they received no rest.

Sandolphin returned and the POWs fled, the seal unfinished. The buildings upper most stories shifted into Metropolis surrounding Binah’s citadel, and in time the others too. In her hurry, Binah did not finish the work on the seal, leaving the energy there raw… for with the power of the other six, also unfinished she turned to other matters, and the seals held.

In time the building with the others slowly crumbled, and then Stalin died. The towers lost more importance as the Communist leaders looked beyond their land to improve their power base, something Binah encouraged, believing everything secure at home. It was not as one of Chagidiel’s new Nepharites, the former seraphim, Sandolphin, now hunted its halls creating purgatories within the upper chambers.

Then Communism fell, in part to do with the failure of Binah to complete her seals and through Malkuth working to destroy the Illusion of Communism further enslaving mankind.

The tower, and others like it, have became the target of new interest. Malkuth now seeks the power within the seals, Binah’s power to break the Illusion and free mankind, while Binah’s near awakened servants, the POWs train children in the Cabbalah and talk to them of the day when they will pass through the 50 gates to the centre of the universe and erect a church of supreme learning to Binah.

Clad in rusticated granite with furled banners and wheat-sheaves above portals, the Kotelnicheskaya dominates the skyline of Moskov with its lofty Gothic spires and statues. The main door is flanked by propylaea and urns, while above them nets catch falling masonry and crumbling mortar. The Illusion continues to falter near the summit of the Kotelnicheskaya, the skyline morphing horribly, giving the tower its dark reputation.

Those residents living with the apartment are gaunt and pallid, subsisting within their rooms, rarely leaving the borderland that exists here… some in fear of walking the corridors that link into twisted labyrinths and forgotten halls more ancient than the building. Children’s screams can be heard everywhere, haunting the air always distant, the countless purgatories of Sandolphin’s victims.

Some corridors lead to Inferno and into the purgatories of Sandolphin’s victims. Should one reach the summit and look out the windows, it will not be the familiar skyline of Moskov, although the seven other Stalin apartments will be silhouetted, but an unfamiliar one with a black sun smouldering behind dark clouds and the seven towers surrounding a vast black palace, glowing red from the bonfires burning at its heights - Binah’s palace.