Peter's cabin, Golosov Ravine and Dyakovo Garden

⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

Peter's log cabin, the streams and boulders of Golosov Ravine, the church in Dyakovo with a view of the bend and an apple orchard where in October the apples still lie under the trees.

👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

👶 under 3, 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

The main avenues are paved, and a stroller is fine by Cappuccinoff and at the palace; Golosov Ravine has steep wooden stairs and packed-earth paths, and to reach Dyakovo with a stroller it's better to go around the ravine by the upper avenue.

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🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin in Kolomenskoye
просп. Андропова, 39, стр. 12
🎟 ticket · the Kolomenskoye grounds are free, the cabin needs a ticket
A log "Peter the Great's cabin" moved to Kolomenskoye from Arkhangelsk in 1934; research suggests it is a reconstruction from the remains of a 1709–1710 palace, and the 1702 rooms have not survived. Inside is period furnishing from Peter's time.
The so-called Peter I's cabin, brought from Arkhangelsk; open Tuesday to Sunday 10–18, closed on Monday
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© Martin Furtschegger · CC BY 3.0
- By the traditional account, the cabin was built in 1702 on Markov Island near Arkhangelsk, and Peter lived in it for about two and a half months.
- In 1710 it was damaged by ice floes, in 1877 the house was moved to Arkhangelsk, and in 1934 to Kolomenskoye.
- The historian I. M. Gostev found that the 1702 rooms have not survived: what stands in Kolomenskoye is a reconstruction from the remains of a 1709–1710 palace that Peter never visited.
- Kolomenskoye also has a model of Peter's Dutch cabin in Zaandam, a gift from the Netherlands for the 2013 cross-year.
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🌳 Golosov Ravine
A deep wooded ravine with a stream and springs, descending to the Moskva River in Kolomenskoye.
Streams, boulders and legends
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© Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 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.
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🏛 Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist in Dyakovo
просп. Андропова, 39, стр. 7
A 16th-century five-pillar church on a hill beyond Golosov Ravine, by a widespread account the compositional predecessor of St Basil's Cathedral.
Climb the stairs out of the ravine: the church on the hill is open daily 11–18, with a view of the river bend from above
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- Five octagonal pillars stand separate from one another, each with its own entrance and altar; the central one is twice the size of the others.
- Apart from St Basil's Cathedral, it is the only surviving multi-pillar church of the 16th century.
- The date of construction is disputed: it is linked both with the birth of Ivan IV in 1530 and with 1553–1554.
- Gravestones from 1534 and 1535 were built into the masonry, so the church cannot have been built before 1535.
- In 1998 Andrey Batalov suggested the church is not a predecessor but a simplified replica of the Intercession Cathedral on Red Square.
- The church was closed in 1924–1949; its cemetery was closed in 1971 and destroyed in 1980.
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🌳 Dyakovo Apple Orchard
музей-заповедник «Коломенское»
An old apple orchard on the hill by Dyakovo: it blooms in spring, and in autumn apples lie under the trees.
In October the apples still lie under the trees; a good spot for a rest on the grass in front of the palace
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© Kor!An (Корзун Андрей) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- In the 17th century Kolomenskoye had three orchards: Voznesensky, Kazansky and Dyakovsky.
- Nearby is the Dyakovo hillfort, one of the oldest settlements in Moscow's territory; it was fortified with a rampart in the 5th–4th centuries BC.
- The hillfort's inhabitants grew millet, barley, wheat and flax.
- In the 17th century a "play town" with a gazebo and a tiled stove was built on the hillfort.