Museum - reserve in Kolomensky
115487 Moscow, Y.V. Andropova Avenue, house 39.
Description:
Museum - reserve in Kolomenskoye - a picturesque park on the territory of the former residence of Russian tsars.
Since the XIV century Kolomenskoye served as the summer residence of the Moscow rulers. According to historical sources, the troops of Dmitry Donskoy stopped here after the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 and the troops of Peter I after the Battle of Poltava in 1709, the squads of the Grand Dukes of Moscow gathered in military campaigns, other events related to the history of the Russian state took place.
In 1532, one of the first tented stone churches in Russia was built here - the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, now, together with the Kremlin and Red Square, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Next to it stands the current temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In the center of the estate there are stone sundials, mighty centuries-old oaks surrounded by a chain fence, and a wooden house-museum of Peter the Great with prints of his hand and a notch marking the two-meter growth of the great sovereign.
