This room is like a book with the remarkable Dutch tiles on the walls acting as illustrations. The quality of the painting on the tiles and the care taken in the execution makes them comparable with the finest products of Delft. The positioning of the tiles was determined by the architecture of the interior. Tiles with a minimum of decoration — cupids, children playing, domestic utensils — alternate attractively with others where the painting almost entirely covers the surface and is enclosed in a circle. Each series of tiles contains dozens of themes and hundreds of individual subjects. Of particular note are the landscapes framed in a large circle. They are extremely fine in terms of painting technique and present, in fragmentary form, views of Holland, examples of the Dutch countryside enlivened by the presence of people. Later in the 18th century the wall between Varvara’s Chamber and the bedroom was partially removed and this changed and significantly impoverished the original appearance of one of the finest tiled interiors of the Petrine age.