🖼 Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich

A reconstructed 17th-century wooden palace with towers, tent roofs and painted chambers.

The wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was built in 1667–1668; contemporaries called it the "eighth wonder of the world".
This description was given to the palace in verse by Simeon of Polotsk, tutor to the tsar's children.
The original had 270 rooms: separate quarters for the tsar, the tsaritsa and the royal children were linked by entryways and passages.
In 1768, by decree of Catherine II, the dilapidated palace was taken apart, after measurements and a model had been made.
The current palace is a reconstruction of 2010: it stands not on the historic site but on a vacant plot near Dyakovo.

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