3 . T H E
A R M O R Y
МОСКОВСКИЙ КРЕМЛЬ
The Armory , a treasury museum , is part of
the complex of the Grand Kremlin Palace .
It is located in a building built in 1851 by
the architect Konstantin Ton . The basis of
the museum ' s collection were precious
objects that were kept in the Kremlin
workshops and received as a gift from the
embassies of foreign countries for
centuries kept in the tsar ' s treasury and
the patriarchal sacristy . The museum
owes its name to one of the oldest
Kremlin treasuries .
The Armory stores the ancient state
regalia , the royal royal dress and
coronation gown , the vestments of the
hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox
Church , the largest collection of gold and
silver items made by Russian masters ,
Western European artistic silver , weapons
masterpieces , a collection of carriages ,
items of parade horse decoration .
The museum features about four
thousand monuments of arts and crafts of
Russia , Europe and the East IV - the
beginning of the XX century . Their
highest artistic level and special
historical and cultural value have brought
world renown to the Armory Chamber of
the Moscow Kremlin .