Walks along Kolomenskoye Automatic translate

On April 5, a photo exhibition “Walks along Kolomenskoye” opened in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow, which tells about the main attractions of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, which is celebrating its centenary this year. This project is the first public part of the joint work of the Museum of Moscow and the museum-reserve on a new exhibition of the project about metropolitan areas "Moscow without suburbs". An exposition dedicated to Nagatino will appear in the museum in autumn, but for now, residents of the area can share their stories on the project website.

By the middle of the 15th century, the village of Kolomenskoye became the patrimony of the Moscow princes, in the middle of the 17th century - the summer residence of the Russian tsars. Grand dukes and tsars, Rurikovichs and Romanovs, erected here unique stone structures that have survived to this day.

In 1923, on the territory of the villages of Kolomenskoye and Dyakovo, on the initiative of the architect and restorer Pyotr Baranovsky, the Open-Air Wooden Architecture Museum was created in order to preserve the monuments of the 17th-18th centuries. Over the years, the travel tower of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery, the House of Peter I, the Mokhovaya Tower of the Sumy Fort, and the tower of the Bratsk Fort were transported to Kolomenskoye.

The ethnographic complex in Kolomenskoye is one of the main attractions of the museum-reserve. Here, everyone can watch the work of a blacksmith and learn how the Kolomna peasants lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as visit the Falcon Yard and watch demonstration flights of birds of prey.

In 2010, the historical and artistic reconstruction of the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was opened to the public. Collecting bit by bit references in sources, familiarizing themselves with economic documents and preserved interiors of the 17th century, the museum staff created a unique space, photographs of which can be seen at the exhibition.

Kolomenskoye attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors not only with exhibitions and architectural monuments of the 16th-19th centuries. On the territory of the museum-reserve there are some of the oldest trees in Moscow - oaks growing near the Sovereign’s Court. Scientists estimate the age of these trees at 400-600 years.

Visitors to the exhibition “Walks along Kolomenskoye” in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow will be able to see photographs of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, the bell tower of St. George, the Vodovzvodnaya Tower, the Palace Pavilion of 1825, the complex of the Sovereign’s Court, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist.