Video: The richest palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich - the pearl of Russian wooden architecture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The tradition of wooden architecture has long been established in Russia, and to this day the surviving buildings impress with their splendor. Kolomna Palace, which served as the residence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, was built by simple peasants - the carpenter head Senka Petrov and the archer-carpenter Ivashka Mikhailov, and was so generously decorated with gold leaf that it delighted even foreigners. And this is not surprising, because these mansions were called "the eighth wonder of the world".
Currently, the Kolomensky Palace is recognized as one of the most popular Moscow attractions. It was built in the 1660s, and Alexei Mikhailovich himself and his successors loved to visit here. In 1709, the future Empress Elizaveta Petrovna was born here, and Peter the Great lived here in his youth. However, during the reign of Catherine the Great, the palace was demolished, today tourists can see a successful reconstruction, an exact copy, built in 2010 with the support of the Russian government.
Kolomna Palace has an unusual layout, in total there are about 250 cells connected by a labyrinth of corridors. The palace was richly decorated with carvings, the green scaly roof, and numerous weathercocks, and gilded figures of two-headed eagles installed on the roof served as decoration.
The palace fell into disrepair after the capital of the state was moved to St. Petersburg. The exact date of the demolition of the palace is unknown. Fortunately, drawings and projects have survived, which made it possible to restore the stone estate. True, the present Kolomna Palace is located a kilometer from the historical foundation, and, although outwardly corresponds to the original, it was built of stone and concrete and only externally sheathed with wood. Historians also point out that the rebuilt layout has a completely different arrangement of rooms than the original palace, and this violates the sacred meaning of the original layout.
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