A Solvychegodsk craftsman made an eight-pointed cross with a slanted bottom crossbeam from a smooth silver sheet. This cross consists of three parts, which are connected by two hinges. The first hinge is in the upper part of the cross, under the top crossbeam, and the second hinge is at the bottom where the cross connects with the U-shaped Golgotha.

The silver cross is engraved with a large image of the Crucifixion, which is decorated with niello. Christ is depicted with His arms outstretched and His legs slightly bent at the knees. On the middle crossbeam, there are small figures of four saints, made using the niello technique.

The Crucifixion stands on Golgotha with two peaks. Above the Crucifixion, there are small figures of two flying angels, and under Golgotha, there is a full-length image of Metropolitan Alexius in a kiot with a keel-shaped top.

On the upper crossbeam, there are three circles with niello images of the New Testament Trinity and half-length images of the archangels Michael and Gabriel. At the top of the cross, there is a circle with a niello image of the Lord of Hosts.

On the bottom crossbeam, there are two circles with half-length images of saints, and on the U-shaped Golgotha, there are seventeen more such circles. The saints include Damian, Cosmas, Clement, Nicholas, John Chrysostom, Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, Peter the Apostle, John the Baptist, Paul the Apostle, Thomas the Apostle, Metropolitan Peter, Metropolitan Jonah, Theodore of Sykeon, Andrew Stratelates of Taurus, Saint Demetrius of Uglich, and Saint Sergius of Radonezh.

The silver cross for the shroud was donated by Semyon Stroganov’s wife Yevdokiya Nesterovna Stroganova, her children Andrey Semyonovich and Pyotr Semyonovich, and her grandchildren Dimitry Andreyevich and Fyodor Petrovich.

The silver cross used to be attached to a damask shroud as evidenced by the holes along its edges. The shroud for the relics of Saint Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow, was donated to the Solvychegodsk Annunciation Cathedral between 1581 and 1586 by Semyon Anikeyevich Stroganov with the blessing of Dionysius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus, and Christopher, Archimandrite of the Chudov Monastery.