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Kolomenskoye is a former royal estate situated several kilometers to the south-east of the city-centre of Moscow, Russia, on the ancient road leading to the town of Kolomna (hence the name).
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Kolomenskoye village was first mentioned in the testament of Ivan Kalita (1339).
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The earliest extant structure is the exceptional Ascension church (1532), built in white stone to commemorate the long-awaited birth of an heir to the throne, the future Ivan the Terrible. Being the first stone church of tent-like variety, the uncanonical "White Column" (as it is sometimes referred to) marked a stunning rupture with the Byzantine tradition.
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Church of St. George, 1685, was replaced to Kolomenskoe from Arkhangelsk region in 2010.
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Tsar Alexis I had all the previous wooden structures in Kolomenskoye demolished and replaced them with a new great wooden palace, famed for its fanciful, fairy-tale roofs.
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The wooden palace of Alexis I was demolished in 1768, and replaced with a much more modest stone-and-brick structure. Fortunately a wooden model of the palace survives, and the Moscow Government has completed a full-scale reconstruction in 2010.
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The unique landscape of Kolomenskoye was formed by lives and activities of many generations. At a short distance from the centre of the estate, on a round flap-top hill Dyakovo settlement, which is the most ancient settlement within modern Moscow, appeared 2.500 years ago.
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Recently, archaeologists discovered Early Medieval (8th — 10th centuries) settlements in the central part of Kolomenskoye as well as the unique Dyakovo-poyma settlement, which is an ancient Russian village of the 11th and 12th centuries, at the feet of the Dyakovo Hill.
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The whole vertical composition of Ascension church is believed to have been borrowed from hipped roof-style wooden churches of the Russian North. Recognizing its outstanding value for humanity, UNESCO decided to inscribe the church on the World Heritage List in 1994.
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The tower of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery, 17th century, was transported to Kolomenskoe in 1932.
During the early Soviet period, old wooden buildings and various artifacts were transported to Kolomenskoye from different parts of the USSR for preservation, so currently Kolomenskoe Park hosts an impressive set of different constructions and historical objects.
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Church of Our Lady of Kazan, 17th century.
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The future Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was born in the palace in 1709, and Tsar Peter the Great spend part of his youth here.
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The 390 hectare scenic area which overlooks the steep banks of the Moskva River became a part of Moscow in the 1960s.
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