Archangel Cathedral (Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel) is located on Cathedral square in the Moscow Kremlin. The first building of the Archangel Cathedral was located at this place in the Kremlin about 1247-1248, and was made of wood. In 1333 by Ivan Kalita in a summer was built a stone Church. Rebuilt the Archangel Cathedral was consecrated on 20 September 1333, Metropolitan Theognost.

The present Cathedral was built in 1505-1508, For the construction has been invited by the Italian architect Aleviz New. Built on the site of the Cathedral of the 14th century, a new Archangel Cathedral was consecrated in September 1508, Metropolitan Simon.

The Cathedral is built of brick and decorated with white stone. The walls of the temple used architectural motifs of the Italian Renaissance. This multi-eaves, order pilasters with capitals decorated with floral ornaments. Gables are decorated with "sinks". At the temple 5 chapters. He patapedia, six pillars, wasmerely. For women of the Royal family were built with a special choirs on the second tier. Originally the heads of the Church were covered with "black" tiles.

The interiors of the temple are richly decorated with frescoes of the 15th and 16th centuries. The wooden iconostasis of the Church of the icon of the 17-19 centuries. The murals of the 16th century was destroyed and the temple was again painted in 1652-1666, painters Armory. The authors of the frescoes – Yakov Kazan, Joseph Vladimirov, Stepan citizen of Ryazan.

In the Cathedral is a memorial burial. In 1508, at the behest of Grand Duke Vasily III in the Archangel Cathedral was founded as a Necropolis. In the Necropolis were brought relics of the Great Russian princes.Only in the temple 54 graves. Among them are cancer of the Holy Prince Dmitry Ivanovich and cancer Michael of Chernigov. 46 gravestones dated 1636-1637 years. Bronze glazing cancers dated to 1903. From 1599 to 1765, special bishops made the memorial service – the memorial of kings and princes.

From 1743 to 1883 years the Archangel Cathedral was the main Church of the Moscow diocese.

In 1913 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in the Cathedral was erected canopy over the grave of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. The canopy was adorned with two massive lamps that are lit personally by the Emperor Nicholas II.

The Archangel Cathedral was damaged during the Patriotic war of 1812 and in 1917, during the shelling of the Kremlin, and in 1918 it was closed. In 1929, after the demolition of the Kremlin ascension monastery, where was the tomb of the Queens and Grand duchesses, the basement Cathedral of the Archangel moved their remains. Since 1955, in the Archangel Cathedral works Museum.