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December 15. Moscow Red Square Diamond Fund and a lot in general.

• Dec 17, 2016 at 7:21 PM

First, I’ll count how many times I’ve been to Red Square before. Three. probably four times.

Inside the Kremlin – once, in the early nineties, on a school excursion to the Armory. I only remembered the carriages (and, to be honest, they didn’t impress me). A visit to the Diamond Fund was not offered then by default.

Around the same years, my “thieves” childhood friend, due to her usual connections, nevertheless visited the Diamond Fund and then assumed mystery about it. This was typical for her)).

As a result, for many years it seemed to me that there was a secret place inside the Kremlin where only a select few could enter. As if – a museum is a museum, but who will give it to you (to visit). Well, then, of course, I changed my opinion, but in my mind the Diamond Fund was firmly associated with difficulties, sometimes even insurmountable.

Shortly before the start of my movement, I saw an announcement that a temporary exhibition called “The Elegance and Luxury of Art Deco” would be held in the Kremlin for several months. I liked everything about the title of the exhibition: elegance, luxury and, especially, Art Deco, as if scattering like railway glass balls on a hard floor.

I decided to take and combine the glass balls to solve the mystery of the diamond room. How long can you hide?

I also knew that in Katya I would find an ardent supporter of any kind of action, except for a hunger strike, and my expectations were justified. Katya suggested a third place for cultural leisure: the exhibition “Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece” in the Historical Museum, which was located nearby.

Finally, the fourth place/pastime presented itself: lunch at the nearby “Dining Room No. 57” in GUM.

Then I started searching and found two useful articles: “How to get to the Kremlin” and “How to get to the Diamond Fund,” with step-by-step instructions, according to which we acted throughout the entire trip.

As I later told Katya, once upon a time all of ancient Moscow was contained within fortress walls: where it is now empty, there were wooden houses with plowed gardens next to them,

and in the center of the square stood temples and princely chambers,

and that means, taking into account all our movements, during the day we managed to run around the perimeter of the medieval city at least twice.

Tickets to the Diamond Fund are sold at a separate ticket office, following a certain order: from 9.30 to 12.00 (in fact, until 11.30) tickets are sold for morning sessions (meaning organized excursions every twenty minutes), and then, from 13.00 – for evening ones. We arrived at the box office at about 11.30, and all the tickets for the first half of the day had already been sold. It should be taken into account that we had a weekday (Monday) in a non-seasonal month (December), and, moreover, it did not fall within the school holidays.

At that time, tickets to the Kremlin and tickets to the Armory were being sold at the neighboring ticket offices. We bought tickets to the territory (they additionally included a visit to the Art Deco exhibition) and went to the Kremlin to while away the time until one o’clock in the afternoon.

The exhibition “Elegance and Luxury of Art Deco” was located in two buildings at once and was a demonstration of a certain selection of dresses, hats, gloves, powder compacts, cigarette cases and jewelry.

It was forbidden to take photographs, but I only found out about this when they barked at me, and before that I calmly took photographs.

After the barking, she no longer risked taking photos and took out a good old phone with which she could play spy.

Then Katya and I went outside the fortress walls to the Alexander Garden, where the ticket office was located (where we came from at the very beginning).

It was already the second hour of the day, and at the box office we bought tickets to the Diamond Fund for the next show, 14.40. In the remaining time before the excursion, we went to GUM for lunch.

“Take a photo of me on Red Square for Ava on VK,” Katya asked.

“Come on,” I agreed.

All the photos of my wonderful child in Contact hide her face. Hood, hair, palm, just turns away. To my questions “Why?” answers importantly and at the same time holding back laughter: “Because.” Here, near Red Square, I was glad that I would finally take her a beautiful photo, in which she would finally have something to show her. What a cruel disappointment awaited me.

– Katya, what a madhouse!

– Take a photo quickly, mom, it’s hard for me to stand like this!

The photo received a dozen likes in the first five minutes. Her classmates told her, “You are like a superman who has arrived.”
)) I waved my hand and left her alone.

We entered GUM through the central entrance, turned to the right and went up to the third floor, where “Dining Room No. 57” was located at the end on the right.

In essence, this is an ordinary self-service cafe, but very clean, generally inexpensive, offering home-style delicious “canteen” dishes. It’s a good place to take foreigners who decide to get into the spirit of the Soviet Union without harm to the psyche, and at the same time it’s good to eat there yourself after walking for many hours in the surrounding area.

Katya and I took one crab salad and one borscht for two (the portions were decent, and we shared both). She – mashed potatoes with chicken Kiev, I – beef stroganoff with rice, two compotes in cut glasses. Unfortunately, we were only able to sit close to the queue, because the dining room was clearly popular (although, if you wanted, you could walk around three halls in search of a table).

After lunch, we returned again to the Borovitskaya Tower, through which the entrance to the Kremlin territory is entered, again went through security (the first time we stood in line for about twenty minutes, the second time – about seven minutes), entered and moved to the building of the Armory Chamber/Diamond Fund.

The cost of tickets, by the way, was as follows: for the territory of the Kremlin (with the Art Deco exhibition), adults 500 rubles, students 250 rubles. To the Diamond Fund, adults 500 rubles, students 100 rubles.

Taking photographs inside the Foundation is prohibited, and many other things are also prohibited. A visit is possible only with a guided tour, you can only separate from the group within three to five meters, you cannot approach another group, you cannot stand behind the guide, the doors to the exit from the hall are opened by employees from the outside only at the appointed time, there is another person carefully watching each group from behind specially trained employee.

The Diamond Fund website has a decent virtual tour, which is not too much inferior to a live inspection.

Personally, I liked two things.

Firstly, a scattering of diamonds in pipes.

I really wanted to stick my straightened fingers into the tubes, like Amelie in the film of the same name into bean bags.

Secondly, sapphires. I didn’t like the emeralds at all: I thought it would be an incredibly rich dark green color, but they looked like broken bottles ironed by the sea. The situation was approximately the same with rubies. But the sapphires are simply beautiful, they really hypnotized me. If I were a courtesan, I would take sapphire tiaras, or whatever else I could take. Joke.

After 45 minutes we left and returned again to Red Square, now to the Historical Museum, to look at ancient Greek culture. Here the ticket cost 350r/100r.

It was also possible to take photographs only from under the counter.

This is, naturally, Artemis.

Most of the statues had their noses broken off, from which I concluded that the ancient Greek nose was a thin and fragile thing, tapering sharply from the edge of the bridge of the nose to the tip. if the statue was dropped by barbarians, it would be impossible for the dominant graceful profile to not break off.

The same thing, apparently, happened with the fingers.

After viewing the exhibition, Katya was so tired that we even sat in the lobby for about ten minutes. I asked her, “Well, on the subway or back to GUM?”, to which Katya looked at me with fear and asked in turn: “Could you also go to GUM?”

Easily. But we went, of course, to the subway, I’m not that much of a maniac. We got to Kotelniki, got on the bus, 2 hours and 40 minutes later we arrived in Ryazan, where I sent Katya home on one minibus, and I went on a different route to Bars, bought food there and picked up the last cotton T-shirt in the order from the parcel terminal.

Hooray, here is a neon shade that suits me. Orange-pink with “acidity”, as they said in the early nineties. I will wear it.

She did something else at home, cheerfully and with songs. On the maternal side, my grandmother had a relative who became the talk of the town and, through her actions, gave birth to the family saying “if that’s the case, I went for the viburnum.”

The story itself sounded like this: “We are busy in the garden and can barely crawl home. And she (I think it was my great-grandmother’s mother-in-law) asks: “Tanya, are we going to do anything else today?” – No, we won’t, where else? – And then she cheerfully and accommodatingly: – Ahh. OK. Then I’ll go get some viburnum.”

For viburnum – this meant an hour one way, and an hour back, and how much more to collect that viburnum.

So I just had enough strength to go for viburnum. I got up at 6.40, from 10.30 to 17.30 I walked on my feet, practically without sitting down, shaking on a hot bus to another city and back. Either the whole day in the fresh air had such an inspiring effect on me, or the feasible physical activity and complete lack of mental activity, or the endless change of pleasant impressions.

Next time I’ll go to a performance at the student theater “Transition”.

Their repertoire regularly catches my eye, and the only thing that stops me is the theater’s location in a residential area on the other side of the city.

Composition from 8 people.

• English
• Russian

The Museum of Priceless Wealth is the Diamond Fund of Russia. It is part of the State Fund of Precious Stones and Metals, unique nuggets and jewelry, which have enormous historical significance for our country and the whole world.

The most protected museum in Russia invites you on a tour that will capture everyone’s imagination. The Diamond Fund of the Moscow Kremlin contains only two exhibition halls, but these huge rooms display the main relics of Russian history. Every day there is a huge line of people wanting to get into the Diamond Fund, because there are only two halls inside and access to them is limited. Therefore, the Diamond Fund, for obvious reasons, is the most inaccessible gallery in Russia. By purchasing a 40-minute excursion from our company in Moscow at an affordable price, you can get inside without any problems and without queues and appreciate the impressive collection of jewelry.

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The Foundation’s Most Valuable Riches

Inside the Diamond Fund in the Moscow Kremlin there are unique treasures, the value of which cannot be converted into modern money. It’s easier to say that they are priceless. During the excursion you will see symbols of autocracy, the famous imperial scepters and royal crowns, family jewels of the royal families. You will see the world’s rarest gems and stunningly sized gold and platinum bars, and admire the masterpieces of world jewelry. Also in the Diamond Fund are amazing examples of precious stones and nuggets, as well as a map of our country, lined with diamonds.

The most significant exhibits that you will see during the tour:

• Large imperial crown, in which a noble spinel is inserted.
• Small imperial crown.
• Imperial scepter with Orlov diamond.
• Diamond sign on a chain and a star to it of the Order of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called.
• Diamond Shah.

Seven historical stones of the Diamond Fund in the Kremlin:

• Diamond Orlov 189,62 carats.
• Diamond Shah 88,70 carats.
• Flat portrait diamond 25 carats.
• Giant spinel 398,72 carats.
• Huge Ceylon sapphire 258,18 carats.
• Huge emerald 136,25 carats.
• Giant olive green peridot 192,6 carats.

After a 40-minute excursion to the Diamond Museum, you will be able to admire the grandeur and beauty of Red Square, take souvenir photos and view the ancient towers. We will continue with a walk through the Alexander Garden, which is beautiful at any time of the year, where we will see monuments of three centuries and where you can buy valuable souvenirs.

Excursion to the Armory Chamber – another treasury of Moscow

The excursion and acquaintance with state regalia and iconic objects of Russian history will continue in the most famous museum-treasury of the Kremlin – the oldest state museum of decorative and applied arts in Russia.

The Armory has a large collection of ancient weapons from the 13th to 18th centuries, collections of gold and silver tableware, fabrics and clothing from the 14th to 19th centuries, gifts from foreign ambassadors, items from royal and princely life, and jewelry. The works of Russian gunsmiths are also exhibited here: Vasily Kartsev, Grigory Vyatkin and other jewelers: Ivan Popov, Gavrila Ovdokimov and others. In the halls you will see the Monomakh Cap, ceremonial outfits, weapons, luxurious thrones of the kings, as well as a unique collection of Faberge Easter eggs – on our tour you will learn from the guide about the history and features of each exhibit. Our tour will end at the Borovitsky Gate of the Kremlin.

By booking tours of the Diamond Fund and the Armory online, you can visit them without queues. The cost of tours to the Kremlin includes a professional guide and entrance tickets. You can clarify questions about each walk, find out the cost and buy an excursion by calling or emailing our travel agency.