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Hranovita Chamber

Hranovita Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin. Photo September 6, 1976.

Hranovita Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin. View from the east.
Photo by N.I.Zharkikh, September 6, 1976.

This hall for ceremonial receptions built by italian craftsmen in 1487 – 1491's. Brick house, but its eastern facade decored with diamond rust white-faced blocks. From this intake, usual for the Italian Renaissance, but unusual for Moscow, the Chamber obtain its name.

Left on the photo shows a fragment of the Great Kremlin Palace, right – the fragment of church of Deposition of the Robe of Virgin Mary.

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