When going out of the gate arch of the Tsar’s courtyard in Kolomenskoye (ancient summer residence of Grand Dukes of Moscow and Russian Tsars), one suddenly sees a high-water bed of the Moskva River, a …
The church, which is a monument of the so-called oprichny school of Russian architecture known in the 1560s and the 1570s, the late period of Ivan IV the Terrible’s reign, has no direct analogues in …
The house of Peter I is the only Moscow memorial museum dedicated to the Russian tsar and reformer. It was specially built for him in 1702 on the St. Mark Island at the outfall of …
Palace Pavillion is the only building that remained of the palace of Alexander I built at the beginning of the 19th century. The young Emperor-to-be together with his grandmother Catherine the Great visited the Kolomenskoye …
In the 1670’s, in order to supply the palace in the Kolomenskoye country residence with water, a water tower was built. With the help of special mechanisms water was taken from a well and delivered …
The stockaded fort situated on the left bank of the Angara River. The fort had three towers that surmounted household structures and one passage-tower with a barn and chapel. By the beginning of the 18th …
The Falconry at the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich Courtyard exposition was created in Kolomenskoye, at the reconstructed Falconry Yard. The exposition is devoted to the long-age falconry tradition of Russian Princes and Tsars that reached its …
A legend has it that the monastery was founded by St. Euphemius of Karelia at the turn of the XV century. It was situated at the Northern Dvina outflow, not far from the White Sea. …
Natural sites include unique and irreplaceable complexes that are very valuable from the ecological, scientific, cultural and esthetical points of view as well as objects of natural and man-made origin. On the territory of presentMoscownear …
The settlement gave its name to the Dyakovo archeological culture that spread on a big territory from the upstream of theVolgaRiverto theOkaRiverfrom the VIII century B.C. till the VIII century A.D. The most ancient settlers …
