Did you know that in the 20th century the architectural ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin was destroyed by more than half? Which of the 54 buildings inside the Kremlin walls were destroyed 28? Which of the 31 Kremlin churches died 17? "Until recently, it was not customary to write about it. Neither about the explosions of 1929, when the Kremlin monasteries were destroyed, nor about the Cathedral of the Savior on Bor, dismantled for the sake of deputy buffets and toilets, nor about how Vladimir Ilyich Lenin personally uprooted a cross monument with the Crucifixion of Christ from the Kremlin Square. Among the Kremlin losses of the past century are the most valuable monuments of Russian art of the 15th - early 20th centuries associated with the main events of Russian history. Two monasteries, the oldest cathedral, the royal palace, the Pushkin Armory, ancient icons and frescoes on the Kremlin gates. Many of the dead monuments, if they had survived to this day, would have been valued no less textbook Kremlin attractions. The Kremlin is the heart of the motherland. We have heard this phrase since childhood. It is bitter to learn how this heart was operated on without anesthesia. What wounds the 20th century left on this." This book, illustrated by hundreds of rare photographs, is a detailed guide to the defunct, destroyed Moscow Kremlin, to the forever lost architectural and historical monuments that Russia could be proud of.