CROSS CHAMBER OR MYRRH CHAMBER

The Cross Chamber or the Myrrh Chamber is the most important room of the entire palace, around which the complex is built

The 280-square-meter room with high vaulted ceilings was used to host important ceremonies, councils, receptions and feasts.

But from 1763, the room took on an even more sacred role and became the Myrrh Chamber. Take a look at the large oven topped with a baldachin placed in the center of the room: this is where miro, the holy oil used during  sacraments, was prepared once every three years using 50 different essences.

The enormous urns used to make it are still kept here, and since 1963 various objects from the Armory and the Kremlin Cathedrals and others that belonged to the Patriarchs who lived in this building are on display.