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      All day: Kolomna — the kremlin, kalachi and pastila

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 9 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      By express train to Kolomna: a pastila tasting, hot kalachi (traditional bread), the kremlin with Marina's Tower and dinner with infused liqueurs from the "moonshine alphabet".

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kazansky Station
      Комсомольская пл., 2
      On Saturday there is also a special express to Ryazan at 08:04 (arrives in Kolomna at 09:56, seats by ticket) (October 2026 timetable)
      🚆 by suburban train to Kolomna Pastila Museum
      REKS from Kazansky Station at 08:47 (arrives in Kolomna 10:28) or a regular train at 08:44 (arrives 10:39); get off at Kolomna station, not Golutvin, then 15 min on foot
      1. 1
        🖼 Kolomna Pastila Museum
        Коломна, Посадская ул., 13А
        🎟 ticket · visits by scheduled tour
        A museum in an old merchant house where the forgotten recipe for Kolomna apple pastila (a fruit confection) was revived.
        15 minutes on foot from the station. A theatrical tour with a pastila tasting — by appointment only, book ahead
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        Kolomna Pastila Museum
        © Tatiana Pelipeiko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum opened on 24 January 2009; its second name is the "Museum of Vanished Taste".
        • It occupies a wing of the old Suranov merchant estate.
        • The project's authors are Natalia Nikitina and Yelena Dmitrieva; the museum was conceived as social entrepreneurship.
        • Three kinds of pastila are made here: airy with egg white, airy without egg white, and dense.
        • The museum's own factory works in the building of merchant Pyotr Chuprikov's "Confectionery and Pastila Establishment"; by 2011 it made 26 varieties.
        • The whole "City-Museum" cluster began with pastila: thanks to it, tourist traffic to Kolomna tripled.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Kalachnaya Museum
        Коломна, ул. Зайцева, 14
        🎟 ticket
        A museum-bakery in a stone mansion of the mid-19th century: it tells the story of the Kolomna kalach (a traditional bun) and bakes it in an old kalach oven.
        Kalachi made to an old recipe straight from the oven; with fillings available
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        Kalachnaya Museum
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • Kalachnaya is part of the same "City-Museum" cluster as the Kolomna pastila museum.
        • Kalachi are baked in a two-hearth oven restored from old drawings.
        • The oven is fired with bark-free birch wood, which makes the kalachi whiter.
        • The dough is shaped on an ice table: the cold keeps the gas in it, so the kalach comes out fluffy.
        • Kalach bakers were a separate guild: ordinary bakers did not bake kalachi.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Pyatnitsky Gate of the Kolomna Kremlin
        Коломна, ул. Лазарева
        A mighty 16th-century red-brick gate tower, the main ceremonial entrance to the Kolomna Kremlin.
        The only surviving 16th-century kremlin gate; currently under restoration — passage and the museum inside are closed, view it from the outside from Ploshchad Dvukh Revolyutsiy
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        Pyatnitsky Gate of the Kolomna Kremlin
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pyatnitsky Gate of the Kolomna Kremlin
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The gate is named after the wooden Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, patroness of trade, which stood nearby in the posad.
        • Of the kremlin's four gate towers, only this one survives.
        • According to the inventory of 1578–1579, the tower held 90 arquebuses, 5,500 iron cannonballs and 7 barrels of gunpowder.
        • The lower tier with its separate shooting turret recalls the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
        • The tower's base is 14 by 22 meters; slots for the portcullis (herse) survive in the arch.
        • The Pyatnitskaya chapel of brick and white stone was added to the tower in the 1820s.
        • Legend says Marina Mniszech and the ataman Zarutsky buried a treasure under the leaf of the Pyatnitsky Gate.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Square of Kolomna
        Коломна, Соборная пл.
        A white five-domed cathedral of the 1670s surrounded by old merchant houses and the kremlin's churches.
        A cathedral, a tent-roofed bell tower and the Tikhvin Cathedral on one square
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        Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Square of Kolomna
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Square of Kolomna
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The present cathedral was built by the architect Meletiy Alekseev in 1672–1682, using the white stone of the earlier church.
        • The previous cathedral was founded by Dmitry Donskoy, presumably in 1379, after the victory on the Vozha River.
        • Theophanes the Greek is believed to have painted the Don Icon for this cathedral; Ivan the Terrible took it to Moscow, and it is now in the Tretyakov Gallery.
        • In 1581–1586 Bishop Job, the future first patriarch of the Russian Church, served here.
        • In the early 19th century the rector was Mikhail Drozdov, father of Metropolitan Philaret.
        • The cathedral was closed in 1929 and returned to the Church in 1989.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Novo-Golutvin Monastery
        Коломна, пл. Двенадцати Апостолов
        A working convent behind a brick wall with 17th–18th-century buildings.
        A convent inside the kremlin — a well-kept courtyard and flower beds
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        Novo-Golutvin Monastery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Novo-Golutvin Monastery
        © Vsatinet · CC0
        Novo-Golutvin Monastery
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1799 in the former bishop's house, to keep it from being demolished or given over to barracks.
        • The brethren of the Epiphany Golutvin Monastery were moved here, hence the name "Novo-Golutvin" (New Golutvin).
        • The convent's Trinity Church was built in 1680–1705.
        • The bell tower of 1825, 55 meters high, is one of the tallest in Kolomna.
        • The wall with turrets from the 1820s was deliberately styled as a medieval fortress, with machicolations and spires.
        • Until 1919 the monastery was for men, and in 1989 it reopened as the first communal convent for women in the Moscow diocese.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🍽 House with a Mezzanine Restaurant
        Коломна, ул. Лажечникова, 4
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        Lunch: borscht with pampushki and pike cutlets
        🍴 A restaurant and coffee house on the kremlin's main street, with two terraces and big portions. What to order: borscht with pampushki (garlic rolls), pike cutlets, pan-fried roast, honey cake (medovik).
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 Brusensky Monastery
        Коломна, Брусенский пер., 36
        🚪 entrance from Brusensky Lane
        A small convent founded in 1552 in honor of the capture of Kazan.
        A 16th-century tent-roofed church outside the kremlin walls
        🚪 exit to Lazareva Street
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        Brusensky Monastery
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Brusensky Monastery
        © Irinka Irisha · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name most likely comes from "brusenny": the first cells and possibly the church were built of squared timber (brus).
        • According to tradition, the first residents were participants in the Kazan campaign.
        • Until the 1620s the monastery was for men, and after the Time of Troubles it became a convent.
        • In Soviet times the tented Assumption Church was turned into a vegetable warehouse.
        • In 1932 the tented five-domed top of the Holy Cross Cathedral was demolished; it was recreated in 2005–2007.
        • In 1991 the museum "Tented Architecture of the Moscow Region" opened in the Assumption Church; the convent was revived in 1997.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🏛 Marinkina (Kolomenskaya) Tower
        Коломна, ул. Лазарева
        A round (twenty-sided) 16th-century tower with loopholes, one of the seven surviving towers of the kremlin.
        Legend has it Marina Mniszech was held here; the best view is from Lazarev Street
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        Marinkina (Kolomenskaya) Tower
        © Ляшко Ирина · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Marinkina (Kolomenskaya) Tower
        © Grom83 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built together with the whole stone kremlin in 1525–1531 under Vasily III.
        • From a distance the tower looks round, although it has twenty faces.
        • The tower has eight tiers: six with loopholes, a seventh with machicolations and an eighth with forked battlements.
        • It is also called Kolomenskaya, after the little Kolomenka River by which it stands.
        • According to another legend, Marina Mniszech did not die in captivity but turned into a magpie and flew out through a loophole.
        • Of the kremlin's 17 towers, seven have survived to this day.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🍽 Gerberg 1st Number Restaurant
        Коломна, ул. Лажечникова, 10
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        Dinner: pyzhi and solyanka, with an infusion from the "moonshine alphabet"; book a table in advance
        🍴 A restaurant-museum of old Russian cuisine in the kremlin, with a "moonshine alphabet" of infused liqueurs. What to order: pyzhi (traditional pastry) with lard, Moscow-style mixed solyanka, mushroom soup.

      ↩️ Getting back: Taxi, 10 min to Kolomna station; trains to Kazansky Station at 19:41, 19:59, 20:43 and 21:41 (about 2 h 20 min), on Saturday an express at 19:34 (about 2 h 10 min)

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