One of the favorite scenes of Russian artists, since the Catherine the Great’s epoch. Here the Kremlin appears not in a well-groomed form, as we see it now as a symbol of the Russian statehood. The artist painted the Petrovskaya (Ugreshskaya) Tower with part of the wall. Behind the wall you can see an opulent vegetation of a garden on the slope and an unpaved path descending along the slope. In the background, Konstantino-Yeleninskaya (Timofeevskaya) and Nabatnaya towers. Also, in the upper right corner, against the gray cloudy sky, one can see the domes of Saint Basil’s Cathedral.

In 1904, as part of the exhibition of architectural sketches “N.K. Roerich. The Monuments of Art Antiquity” In the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, this picture was selected by Emperor Nicholas II to be purchased for the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The purchase did not take place in connection with the beginning of the Russian-Japanese War of 1904–1905.