Kolomenskoye

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Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Ascension Church (1535)
Location	Moscow, Russia
Criteria	Cultural: ii
Reference	634
Inscription	1994 (18th Session)
Website	Official site
Coordinates	55°40′10″N 37°40′08″E / 55.66944°N 37.66889°E / 55.66944; 37.66889
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Kolomenskoye (

The White Column of Kolomenskoye

Kolomenskoye village was first mentioned in the

During the early Soviet period, under the initiative of architect and restorer Pyotr Baranovsky, old wooden buildings and various artifacts were transported to Kolomenskoye from different parts of the USSR for preservation, so currently Kolomenskoye Park hosts an impressive set of different constructions and historical objects.

Local buildings

• Church of John the Baptist in Dyakovo, 16th century. The church stands on the Dyakovo hill, located southwest from the Kolomenskoye hill. The church has five tent-like structures, and was probably constructed around 1547, reputedly by architect Postnik Yakovlev, the author of Saint Basil's Cathedral on the Red Square.
• Church of
  St. George
  , 16th century
• Standalone
  belltower
  for the church of St. George, 16th century
• Standalone refectory for the church of St. George, 16th century
• Church of Our Lady of Kazan, 17th century
• Watertower, 17th century
• Front gates, 1671–73
• Polkovhichyi chambers, 17th century
• Prikaznye chambers, 17th century
• Sytny yard, 17th century
• Back gates, 17th century
• Park pavilion, 1825
• Park gates, 19th century

Constructions and artifacts brought from elsewhere

• Barbican church of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery
• Bratsk Stockade Tower
• Boris stone from Belarus
• Polovtsian
  burial mound
• Chasovoy pole, 17th century
• Tower from the Sumskoy Ostrog fortress, 17th century
• Memorial pole from Shaydorovo village, 19th century
• Mead making facility, 18th century
• Peter the Great house (18th century) from the Northern Dvina
• Lion's Gates from the
  Moscow Kremlin
  (surviving fragments)

Reconstructions

• Water mill on the Zhuzha River

• Oak-trees grove (one of the oldest oaks in Moscow)
• Golosov Ravine with sacred stones and springs in it
• Streams:
• Zhuzha River, emerging from underground
• Kolomenskoye Stream, in Golosov Ravine
• Kolutushkin Stream, in the ravine of that name
• Dyakovskaya Stream, in the ravine of that name, into which several other ravines empty (all on the left: Vospenkov, Lekseev, Bazarihin, Radyushin)

Archeological sites

• Dyakovo settlement

See also

• Tsaritsyno Park
• Kuskovo
• Arkhangelskoye Estate
• Open-air museum

References

• Dixon, Simon. Catherine the Great (Profiles in Power). Harlow, UK: Longman, 2001 (paperback,
  ISBN 0-582-09803-3
  ).

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