Tsarina's Golden Chamber

In the 1580s, it was rebuilt as a ceremonial reception room of Tsarina Irina Godunova, the wife of Tsar Feodor I of Russia.

The paintings on the vault show episodes from Christian history associated with Emperor Constantine of Byzantium and his mother, Helena.

Shown on the northern wall are scenes from the Life of St. Dinara, a Georgian saint who, together with her host, valiantly defended the Christian faith.

[1] During the four centuries of its existence, the Tsarina's Golden Chamber underwent a number of structural alterations and its frescoes were repainted more than once.

The restoration was important because this is the only specimen of Old Russian secular monumental painting in Moscow to have survived to the present day.