Cap of Monomakh - old relic, a golden crown, which is worn during the coronation Russian rulers. Hat was created around the turn of the XIII-XIV centuries. Round in shape, it is made of eight gold records, trimmed with sable fur and decorated with precious stones and filigree. Who and where it produced, historians are still not known.
Contrary to the name, hat belonged not to Vladimir Monomakh, and his grandfather on the maternal side, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine. When Prince Monomakh was going to go to war against Constantinople (Constantinople), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, the Greeks sent him many gifts in order to appease him, that he changed the intent. Among the gifts was a cap and Constantine. Later, Vladimir Monomakh crowned its king. Thus was born the tradition to use the hat at the wedding: Russian rulers saw themselves as the heirs of the Byzantine. Today precious relic is kept in the Armory in the Moscow Kremlin.