The most ancient monument of the Tsar’s Courtyard is the Church of the Ascension. This church was built in 1532. Legend has it that the church was erected ex voto in honour of the birth of the son of Russian Grand Prince Vasily III. The son - Prince Ivan was an heir to the throne and the future first Russian Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible). The Church is a sample of the first Russian stone tent-roof temple. This temple is the first stone tent-roof church in Russian architecture.

The St. George the Victorious Bell Tower was built in Kolomenskoye in the 16th century and used to be a belfry for the Church of the Ascension. In the 17th century the main building was supplemented with a wooden refectory, and thus a new St. George church appeared, which was consecrated in 1678. In 1840s architect E.D.Turin rebuilt the refectory in brick. In 2005–2006 it was restored and transformed into a church of St. George the Victorious.

Water Tower (Vodovzvodnaya Tower) is a rare architectural construction of 17th century. In the past this building was used as a water rising tower of the water system of the Tsar’s Courtyard. It served as a gateway to the Ascension garden and Dyakovo village as well.

The Front (Palace) Gate was constructed in 1672-73 and served as the parade entrance to the territory of the imperial residence. At the Gate there were mechanical lions made from wood and metal and covered by wool. The lions could roll their eyes and their loud roar welcomed the passing guests. The mechanism of these lions was managed in the Organ chamber situated inside the gate on the second tier. And on the third tier there was a clockwork with an hour chime, connected with bells above it. A wooden Double-headed eagle (the State Emblem) was erected at the top of an octahedral tent-roof of the Gate.

In the northern wing of the Gate there is the Prikaznaya chamber (the Chancellery) which was an administrative place of the estate. In the southern wing there is the group of buildings of the Sitniy yard where traditional Russian drinks were made and stored. According to the legend the officers of the Streletsky regiment (Streltsy - Russian military corps in 16th-17th c.) lived in the building nearest to the gate, and that is why these chambers are also called the Colonel's chambers. In 2004 there was an exposition «Milestones in the history of Kolomenskoye» opened in the Front gate complex.

Saviour (Spassky) Gate was constructed in 1670s together with the walls of the Tsar’s Courtyard. It used to be the second main entrance (after the Front gate) to the territory of the Tsar’s Courtyard. The Gate remained almost unchanged except for its roof. From September 2001 till October 2002 restoration works were conducted according to the technology of the 17th century.

The Stone Strelets’ Guardrooms were built in the 1680s, at the same time with the Food (Kormovoi) and Sitniy yards. The chambers were intended for protection of external and internal parts of the Tsar’s residence. They existed for a bit more than a century, were disassembled in 1814 and restored in 2007.

The Food Yard was used for cooking and storing of food of the Tsar’s summer residence. It was built in the 1670s together with the Front and Back gates and Strelets’ guardrooms. There were ice-houses, cookhouses, pantries, key-room and other chambers. In the Bread yard the cooks baked bread, pies, spice-cakes, made sweets and kvass. In 2000-2003 the complex architectural and archaeological research was carried out and the archaeological exposition was opened.

The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built in 1651 on the new Tsar’s Courtyard in Kolomenskoye. Initially there was a wooden church dedicated to the icon of our Lady the Kazan - the patroness of the Russian troops. The church was built to commemorate the expatriation of the Polish-Lithuanian invaders from Moscow in 1612. In 1666-1671 the wooden church was turned into a stone one. In the 17th century it used to be a domestic church connected with the wooden palace of the Tsar by a special covered passage on the level of a first floor. Nowadays church services are conducted in this church all year long.

Pavilion of the 1825 was built by E.D.Turin in 1825 as a separate part of the empire style palace of Emperor Alexander I, which was disassembled in the 1870s. This wooden building was probably used as a small tea house or as a private theatre. In 2005-2006 the total reconstruction of this monument was conducted. Now the pavilion is the place for exhibitions and various programs for children.

Householding structure (Mead or Honey Brewery “Medovarnya”) is the building of the beginning of the 18th century from the Tsar’s estate in Preobrazhenskoye village. In 1927 it was brought to Kolomenskoye by P.D.Baranovsky. In 2001 there were the anti-damage repair and restoration works carried out. Nowadays the Medovarnya hosts guests of Kolomenskoye during the excursion and folk programs which acquaint visitors of the museum with ancient Russian rites, customs and holidays.

House of Peter I is the only Moscow memorial museum devoted to the famous Russian Tsar and Reformer. It was built for Peter the Great in 1702 on the island Markov at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River. The Tsar spent several months there, controlling the construction of the Novodvinskaya fortress. In the 19th century the House of Peter I was transported to Arkhangelsk. After the Revolution of 1917 there was a threat of destruction of this historical monument, and P.D.Baranovsky transported it to Kolomenskoye in 1936. In 2008 the monument was restored.

The Museum of Wooden Architecture was created on the basis of the monuments of Russian wooden architecture brought to Kolomenskoye from the Russian north in 1920-1930s by a well-known architect-restorer P.D.Baranovsky. To the beginning of the 20th century the remains of once numerous Russian wooden fortresses became a rarity. In Kolomenskoye the full scientific restoration of such monuments as towers of Nikolo-Korelsky monastery, Sumskoy and Bratsk stockaded forts of the 17th – 18th centuries was carried out for the first time. The true historical landscape was recreated around these unique monuments. Now there is an exposition inside the tower of the Sumskoy stockade fort.

The Architectural and Ethnographic complex is being actively formed lately in Kolomenskoye: there is the operating stable, the smithy, the bee-keeper’s yard with an apiary, and the water-mill.

Kolomenskoye preserves its ancient natural relief with original flora, venerable oaks and trees, picturesque ravines, high hills. The considerable part of the territory is occupied by large gardens and waterways of the Moskva River.

There were six gardens in the Tsar’s summer residence in the 17th century, and the fruits and berries from these gardens were served up for the Tsar. Only three gardens remained until recently - Kazansky, Djakovsky and Voznesensky. In 1997 - 1999 restoration works were carried out and the original lay-out of the Kazansky garden was restored on the basis of drawings of 1767.

The unique historical and geological nature monument– the Golosov ravine – holds a group of springs “Kadochka”, boulders “Deviy Stone” and “Horse Head” (or "Goose-stone"). Legend has it that these stones possess healing properties.