It faces the belfry and is joined to it by ropes of bells. The Vestiary building is richly decorated: red walls, white window-platbands, a dark-blue dome sprinkled with stars, a roof in the shape of a cupola with slit-like windows, and horizontal white lines diving the building into two floors. One floor of the Vestiary was a library, and the other, the Vestiary proper. Examples of Russian applied art were collected in the Vestiary over many centuries. It contains gold and silver crosses decorated with precious gems and large pearls, gospels with precious covers, gold and silver vessels, chased censors, mitres, brocade vestments, gold-embroidered shrouds and many other items of great artistic value. The monastery library includes an enormous collection of ancient manuscripts and incunabula.