🌳 Golosov Ravine

A deep wooded ravine with a stream and springs, descending to the Moskva River in Kolomenskoye.

The ravine separates Kolomenskoye from the former village of Dyakovo, where the 16th-century Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist stands.
Since 2009 the ravine has been a natural monument, and the 18.9 hectares around it are a specially protected area.
Two huge boulders, Gus-Kamen and Devy Kamen, lie about 50 m from each other.
Researchers believe the veneration of the stones took shape only in the 1970s, although it is passed off as an ancient tradition.
A legend links the stones to St George's battle with the dragon; it spread in the 1980s–1990s.
In Konstantin Grigoryev's novella Green Mist, the characters pass through this ravine into the future.

Part of these routes