Monument-museum "Church of St. Andrew Stratilates"

About museum

On the southern side of the Kremlin one can find a monument-museum that was formerly the southern side-chapel of the Church of Boris and Gleb, built in 1167–1173 by order of Sotko Sytinich. In 1441 the church was rebuilt, and on the massive foundation of a 12th-century stair tower a side-chapel in honor of the holy warrior-martyr Andrew Stratilates was established. In 1682 the Borisoglebsky Cathedral collapsed, and the side-chapel was enlarged and turned into an independent church. Today the monument-museum is dedicated to warrior-martyrs and is a pillarless church elongated from west to east, rectangular in plan with a box (barrel) vault and a blind drum above the gable roof. On the western wall there is a single-span belfry.