The Armory Chamber |
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The Armory Chamber, a treasure
house, is a part of the Grand
Kremlin Palace’s
complex. It is situated in the building constructed in 1851 by architect Konstantin Ton. The museum collections were based on the
precious items that had been preserved for centuries in the tsars’ treasury
and the Patriarch’s vestry. Some of the exhibits were made in the Kremlin’s
workshops; others were accepted as ambassadorial gifts. The museum was named
after one of the oldest Kremlin’s treasury stores. The Armory Chamber
preserves ancient state regalia, ceremonial tsar’s vestments and coronation
dress, vestments of the Russian Orthodox Church’s hierarchs, the largest
collection of gold and silverware by Russian craftsmen, West European
artistic silver, ceremonial weapons and arms, carriages, horse ceremonial
harness. The State Armory presents more than four thousands items of applied
art of Russia,
European and Eastern countries of IV-early XX centuries. The highest artistic
level and particular historical and cultural value of the exhibits have made
the State Armory of the Moscow Kremlin a worldwide known museum.

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