Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
LENGTH
ONE HOUR
SEE
1
ARMOURY
Your tour starts upstairs, where the first two rooms house gold and silver from the
12th to 20th centuries, many of which were crafted in the Kremlin workshops. In
Room 2, you'll find the renowned
2
Easter e
r eggs made by St Petersburg jeweller
Fabergé. The tsar and tsarina traditionally exchanged these gifts each year at Easter.
Most famous is the Grand Siberian Railway egg, with gold train, platinum locomotive
and ruby headlamp, created to commemorate the Moscow-Vladivostok line.
The following rooms display armour, weapons and more armour and more
weapons. Don't miss the helmet of Prince Yaroslav, the chainmail of Boris Godunov,
and the
3
saabres o
d Pozzharssky.
Downstairs in Room 6, you can see the
4
coronatiion dr
s of Min
f Minin a
in and P
n dresses of 18th-century
empresses (Empress Elizabeth, we're told, had 15,000 other dresses). Other 'secular'
dress is also on display, including an impressive pair of boots that belonged to Peter
the Great. The following room contains the
5
jjoiint c
n throne of boy tsars
Peter the Great and his half-brother Ivan V (with a secret compartment from which
Regent Sofia prompted them), as well as the 800-diamond throne of Tsar Alexey,
Peter's father. The gold
6
Cap o
t coronatiion th
p of Mo
f Monomakh
akh, jewel-studded and sable-trimmed, was
used for two centuries at coronations.
End your tour in Room 9, which houses centuries' worth of royal carriages and
sledges. Look for the
7
sle
igh in which Elizabeth rode from St Petersburg to Moscow
for her coronation, pulled by 23 horses at a time - about 800 in all for the trip.
sleigh
