The Kremlin Armoury[Note 1] (Russian: Оружейная палата) is one of the oldest museums in Moscow.

Until the transfer of the court to St Petersburg, the Armoury was in charge of producing, purchasing and storing weapons, jewelry and various household articles of the tsars.

The finest Muscovite gunsmiths (the Vyatkin brothers), jewelers (Gavrila Ovdokimov), and painters (Simon Ushakov) used to work there.

Ten of the 44 surviving Fabergé imperial Easter eggs are displayed at the Armory Museum.

[2] After the Russian Revolution, the imperial family's palaces were ransacked and their treasures moved to the Kremlin Armoury on order of Vladimir Lenin.