Catherine’s church of the Grand Kremlin Palace: history and today functioning
The article covers one of the little-known buildings of the Grand Kremlin Palace, poorly researched - the Church of St. Catherine. It had special significance for the female part of the tsar family, and was used for religious ceremonies in daily life of the tsarina. The article describes the history of the church and explains how it functioned in different historical periods: the so-called ‘Moscow period’, in the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, and during the Soviet era.