It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow, and it is one of the few imperial Fabergé eggs that were never sold after the Russian Revolution.

The cathedral dome (in white opalescent vitreous enamel) is removable, and the remarkably crafted interior of the church can be seen.

Its carpets, tiny enameled icons and high altar on an oval glass plate are made visible through four triple windows, surmounted by a gold cupola and flanked by two square, two circular stylized turrets, the former based on the Spassky Tower.

They had tended to avoid the historical capital due to its ill-omened association with a riot during Nicholas's coronation, where hundreds of Moscovites were crushed to death.

The egg itself was supposed to be presented in 1904 as engraved at the foot in white enamel on a round gold plate is the date.