The Armoury Chamber

In the 14th and prior to the beginning of the 19th centuries, the Armoury chamber represented a treasury of the great Moscow tsars. In the first period of its existence the Armoury chamber was simultaneously storehouse and industrial workshop, which produced both steel weapons and fire-arms and defensive armour to equip Russian warriors. At the beginning of the 19th century the Armoury Chamber acquired significance as a public museum. Today in the Armoury Chamber, unique exhibits are on show, examples of decorative art, given by foreign ambassadors, collections of 13th - 18th century weapons and armour, unequalled elsewhere, fabrics and clothes of the 14th - the 19th centuries, and jewellery of the 12th - the 19th centuries. In addition, in the halls of the Armoury Chamber, you may see rare exhibits of gold, silver, jewels, ivory, porcelain and fabrics encrusted with pearls and jewels. In the Armoury Chamber you may also see Faberge’s famous Easter eggs with some miniature objects inside (for example, a Trans-Siberian express train).