Hranovita Chamber

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.