Moscow kremlin. The armoury chamber презентация

of the Grand Kremlin Palace. It is located in a building constructed in 1851 by architect Konstantin Ton.
The museum collections were for centuries kept in the royal treasury and the Patriarch's vestry precious objects, made in the workshops of the Kremlin, and received a gift from foreign embassies. The museum was named one of the oldest Kremlin's treasury stores.

The Armoury Chamber) was first mentioned in 1547 only as a weapons store in the Moscow Kremlin. (This store seems to have had weapons production workshops and banners). With the 1560s finally enters the use of the name "The Armoury Chamber"

reign of Ivan III the treasury were stored in the building between the Archangel and the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Building state-owned yard was under pyramidal stone roof, with two windows on the palace square. The building existed before the fire in 1737.

workshop of Ivan the Terrible. In the 2 nd floor. XVII century Armory became the center of all-Russian fine art in the walls of a united artistic force that existed before that in Russia only in the form of separate local art schools and trends. Various artistic techniques "melted" here in a single all-Russian national art. Due to the growing diversity of orders within the Armory created a number of different part-time art workshops.

Armory was formed. Headed Workshop Senate. Workshop Armory was instructed to store the value and to manage the Moscow Palace and parishes.
By decree of the Senate in 1732 was supposed to transfer in the workshop all the vintage of curious things from different colleges. Decree 1738 required to transmit only in the workshop and the most outlandish of curious things, and the other to sell.
During a fire in 1737 burned the Kremlin The Armoury Chamber. She died of the trophies (including the Swedish banners taken at the Battle of Poltava) and weapons. The royal treasury in the fire is not affected.

After the fire of breech yard was dismantled. Keep valuables in it were transferred to the mansions of the Terem Palace.
For storage built a special gallery. Conducted ceremonial parades. With 1766 on 1768 Osipov artist made drawings of the royal regalia and interesting things.
In 1806, Alexander I ordered to construct a building on the Senate Square for a workshop Armory. The building was constructed from 1806 to 1812. The building had no heating (as a measure of fire) and it was raw.

the palace began construction of a new building of the Armory on the site of the former Stables Office. The leading architect was the construction of KA Ton; Architects NI Chichagov, VA Bakarev and Architectural Assistants PA Gerasimov, MA Trubnikov, and IP Gorski engaged in the development of the interiors and the individual parts of the building. The building is at a high base, and the contours of the outer repeats outlines Stables Office. The upper floor of the Armory is decorated in the spirit of architecture of the end of the XVII century white stone with carved pillars and window frames with little weights suspended; the ground floor is decorated with pilasters. The walls are decorated with marble medallions with images of Russian princes and kings of the sculptor Fedot Shubin, which he performed in the years 1774-1775 for Chesma palace. Cast iron grill between the Armory and the Grand Kremlin Palace, made the project Ivan L. Mironovskiy, established in 1840.

silversmiths XII - the beginning of XX century, the collection of Western European art silver XIII - XIX centuries, monuments, weapons mastery XII-XIX centuries, military decorations Russia, luxurious precious fabrics, Old Russian secular and ecclesiastical clothing, ceremonial dress XVIII-XX centuries, the state regalia, ceremonial horse trappings and a rare collection of ancient crews XVI-XVIII centuries. The museum Monomakh, Helmet - erihonskaya cap, as well as many other rarities.
The museum features over four thousand monuments of arts and crafts of Russia, Europe and the East IV - beginning of XX century. The highest artistic level and particular historical and cultural value brought to the Moscow Kremlin Armoury world fame.