🏛 Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye

A white-stone tent-roofed church on a high bank, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The church was built in 1532 on the orders of Vasily III, by a common version in honour of the birth of his son, the future Ivan the Terrible.
It is one of the first stone tent-roofed churches in Rus; it is about 62 metres tall.
The author was probably the Italian architect Petrok Maly.
In 1994 the church was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Inside, the church is very cramped: almost all of the volume goes upward, into the tent.
Nearby is Golosov Ravine, with the boulders Devy and Gus-Kamen, around which many legends circulate.

Part of these routes