Water tower
Russia, Moscow, Andropov Avenue, 39
Description:
The water tower is located on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve and is an architectural monument.
The building was built at the end of the XVII century and was a complex technical structure at that time, which supplied the Sovereign Dvor with water.
The tower has another name: “Falcon Tower”. According to legend, in the XIX century it served as a place of keeping falcons for royal hunting.
The structure is forty meters high made of brick, by its nature unique and has no analogues of wooden and brick architecture of that time. The water tower is harmoniously combined with the bell tower of the church of St. George the Victorious. At the same time, the tower was used as a gate to the Ascension Garden.
Today in the tower there is an exhibition "Sovereign Waterworks", reflecting the history of water supply development XVII-XX centuries.