What does the Diamond Fund show?

Meeting point Soon June 17, 2024 15:00Excursion type museumTime 1,5 hoursGroup up to 20 peopleLanguage Russian
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Group gathering – Alexandrovsky Sad metro station
Walking through the Kremlin to the Diamond Fund
Tour of the Diamond Fund
Hall of State Regalia of the Russian Imperial House
Famous gems
Orders of Russia made from precious metals
Large rough and polished diamonds
Items of clothing (costumes) with jewelry
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Our advantages Modern vehicle fleet equipped with climate control. Experienced and correct drivers. We provide all transport documents upon the client’s request. Operational consultations 24/7 in major messengers. Quick, professional selection of excursion programs upon request. Possibility to order an exclusive excursion created to your specifications. Full coverage of the most popular destinations. A large number of unique and rare routes. Creative original excursion programs. Excursions are conducted in 34 languages. All our guides are professionally accredited. We employ only professionals who love and know the city. experience We are the leading excursion bureau in Moscow. More than five years of work in the tourism market of the capital. Hundreds of thousands of tourists have used our services. Can be done in any way – cash, through online banking, payment systems, bank account, courier delivery. We provide closing and other financial documents. About the excursion The Diamond Fund is a unique place in Russia, inextricably linked with the history of the country. The collection presented within the walls of the Kremlin is one of the largest and most significant collections of jewelry in the world. The tour is led by a guide at the Diamond Fund exhibition.

• After confirmation, you must send a photo of the first page of the passport and birth certificate for children (7-16 years old), for children 14-16 years old, additionally a photo of the first page of the passport.
• You must be at the meeting point 1 hour before the start of the tour.
• You must have a passport and birth certificate for the child with you.
• The operating hours of the Diamond Fund Exhibition are approved by the Head of the Gokhran of Russia. Spontaneous changes may be made to the Exhibition operating hours.
• Tickets to visit the Exhibition are personalized and cannot be exchanged.
• It is prohibited to enter the Kremlin territory with large bags, backpacks, bladed weapons and firearms, gas canisters, and food.
• The following items are rented to the cloakroom: outerwear, photo and video cameras, mobile phones, canes.
• Photo and video filming is PROHIBITED at the Diamond Fund exhibition.

The State Diamond Fund is a collection that has been replenished over several centuries. Outstanding masters of past centuries worked on its creation. During the excursion, the exhibition guide, the Diamond Fund, will show you this unique collection of precious stones. Each of the exhibits is a true creation of nature and the skillful hands of jewelers. The value of stones and exclusive jewelry is measured not only by their fabulous estimated value. The main advantage of the fund is its historical, scientific and artistic value.

The history of the creation of the Diamond Fund begins in the time of Catherine II. Over the years, the collection continues to be replenished with new unique exhibits. During the tour you will learn many interesting facts about the legendary collections of precious stones of the Moscow Kremlin, such as:

• exhibits from which countries are presented in the Diamond Fund’s collection;
• how Peter the Great’s chest is connected with the emergence of the fund;
• what kind of jewelry were worn by members of the imperial family;
• who did the jewelry makers look up to;
• what exhibits were created specifically for the museum’s collection during Soviet times;
• what decorations the Russian tsars and queens shone at receptions;
• what stories and legends are associated with jewelry from the museum’s collection.

A walk through the Diamond Fund will give every visitor many unforgettable moments. During the excursion you will be able to get closer to the symbols of power, coronation attributes, and collections of platinum and gold nuggets. The exhibition features real royal attire, decorated with diamonds and other precious elements.

An excursion to the Diamond Fund will help you take a fresh look at the history of Russia.

As a rich collection of jewelry, the Diamond Fund attracts tourists and visitors from all over the world. Even on holidays the place is lively.

As it turned out, getting into the Diamond Fund in the Kremlin is quite difficult. To achieve this, we almost had to accomplish a feat, namely, to get up on the weekend at 8 am (!). What do you want? There is no other way, there are many people who want to get into one of the most famous museums in Russia, especially on weekends. There is another option to book tickets from specialized companies; they usually also offer excursions, but this will, of course, be more expensive.

By 10:00 we were in the Alexander Garden. The most inconvenient thing is that you can only buy tickets to the Diamond Fund at the box office of the museum itself, i.e. on the territory of the Kremlin, and not at the ticket office near the Kutafya Tower. Not only do you have to stand in line to get into the museum (through a metal detector), but you also have to stand in line for tickets at the Diamond Fund itself. In addition, tickets for some sessions have already been sold out by enterprising companies, so it is not a fact that you will be able to buy tickets for the next session.

We are, one might say, lucky. In line, we met a representative of one of these companies – a guy about 50 years old. He invited us to join his group, because. some who signed up (and paid for the visit and excursion!) did not come. So we didn’t have to queue.

You are not allowed to take photographs in the museum. With a camera, phone, etc. They simply won’t let you in; there is another metal detector at the entrance to the Diamond Fund. You will have to put everything, along with your clothes, in the wardrobe. To be honest, it was scary to leave things in clothes, remembering the usual wardrobe inscriptions like “The administration is not responsible for lost items.” But our uncle assured us that nothing had been stolen here during all this time, and we didn’t see a sign with such an inscription in the museum).

Having passed through the metal detector, in which I, as usual, rang because of my badge on my belt (although I passed through normally upon entering the territory), we found ourselves in the long-awaited Diamond Fund of Russia. As usual, the entire crowd (about 20 people) tried to disperse throughout the museum, but everyone was stopped by the guide and the security guard. All the treasures of the Diamond Fund are distributed in separate display cases, almost like in stores. The excursion goes as follows. First, the guide talks about each showcase, what kind of exhibits are presented there, their history, the weight of stones or nuggets, etc. then everyone comes closer and, almost touching the glass with their nose, looks at the jewelry of the Diamond Fund. Yes, this is not the Armory Chamber, where you go wherever you want, everything here follows a predetermined route.

In the first display case there were jars of emeralds, amethysts, sapphires, topazes, tourmalines and other precious stones. In the other three display cases on the right side of the museum there were diamonds and diamonds, large and small, sparkling with all their facets. I especially liked the map of Russia, lined with a scattering of small diamonds.

In the center of the museum there are 4 large display cases with gold and platinum nuggets in a square. Some of them look like animals, one even looks like the devil, and they called him “The Devil.” In total, the Diamond Fund contains 20 platinum and 100 gold nuggets. Among them, one weighing 36 kg is called the “Great Triangle” – the largest gold nugget in the world.

In the next room there are royal regalia and decorations. Among them is the Great Imperial Crown, created specifically for the coronation of Catherine II. It is made of silver, it contains 4936 diamonds and two rows of large pearls. The crown is crowned with a large red stone – noble spinel. After Catherine the Great, all Russian emperors were crowned with this crown.

On the same display case with the Great Imperial Crown there is also a small Imperial Crown, as well as a scepter decorated with the famous Orlov diamond weighing 189,62 carats and an orb. The small imperial crown was made in 1856 for the coronation of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II. According to the official version, the Orlov diamond was presented by Count Orlov to Catherine II for her birthday. According to the unofficial version, Catherine bought it herself, paying for it from the state. treasury, and so that she would not be accused of unreasonable waste of public funds, she staged such a performance.

The diamond fund contains another famous diamond – “Shah”. It was presented by the Shah of Iran to the Russian Tsar Nicholas I as atonement for the murder of the Russian ambassador in Iran. It was not just the ambassador who was killed, but the famous Russian writer A.S. Griboedov, whose monument is now located in Moscow on Chistye Prudy.

In the same department there are royal jewelry. This is the Alexander I bracelet with the Alexander diamond; brooch of Catherine II, made in the form of a bouquet of roses made of gold, silver and decorated with diamonds; pendant in the shape of a berry – made of huge tourmaline and many other beautiful jewelry made of gold, silver, diamonds and other precious stones.

The last section of the Diamond Fund presents products by contemporary masters. These are the most beautiful gold jewelry with amethysts, topazes, emeralds and, of course, diamonds. They do not have the same history as the jewelry from the previous section, but they are no less beautiful, and maybe even more so, because. modern craftsmen use technologies that were unavailable to jewelers of the past.

In total, the tour of the Diamond Fund lasted 40 minutes. The Diamond Fund left me with an ambivalent feeling. On the one hand, I saw the most famous relics of my country, scatterings of precious stones and gold nuggets, on the other hand, somehow little jewelry from the times of queens and emperors was presented in the museum. I don’t believe that over the course of several hundred years, the kings accumulated jewelry enough for only 3 display cases. Most likely, they don’t post everything they have. And the question immediately arises: “Why not expand the museum and display more exhibits?” After visiting the Diamond Fund, I felt some disappointment. Have you ever had a similar feeling?