The museum-reserve is not only unique historical attractions, but also a place where Muscovites and guests of the capital have fun and play sports. With the onset of winter, on the eve of the New Year holidays, all its territories are prepared for outdoor activities.
Kolomenskoye
The museum-reserve will be one of the first in Moscow to offer visitors the opportunity to ride a K-Trak winter bicycle. You can rent it with a protective helmet for 30 minutes for 150 rubles. For lovers of skiing, ski trails of 3 km and 5 km in length are laid in the picturesque places of Kolomenskoye. The cost of ski rental will be 200 rubles (1000 rubles deposit). 
Muscovites are already accustomed to the fact that in winter there is an outdoor skating rink in Kolomenskoye with a warm locker room, storage lockers and a rental point where you can rent skates of different sizes and relax in a warm cafe listening to pleasant music. We make sure that our museum-reserve remains a favorite vacation spot for families with children. Therefore, for children under 6 years of age, admission to the skating rink is free. For schoolchildren from 7 to 12 years old, visiting the skating rink on weekdays will cost 50 rubles, on weekends – 100 rubles. Skating on the skating rink on weekends and holidays will cost 450 rubles (entrance 250 rubles, skate rental 200 rubles). This winter season, especially for young visitors to the skating rink, you can rent a Penguin skating simulator for 100 rubles per hour.
Considering the great popularity enjoyed by our visitors of such winter fun as the attraction “Cheese sledding (tubing)”, two slopes equipped for safe descent have been organized on the territory of Kolomenskoye. Inflatable sleds – “cheesecakes” – can be rented here for 150 rubles for 30 minutes.
In Kolomenskoye, riding on an inflatable “Banana” sled attached to a snowmobile along a new route has been organized. The route begins in the area of the rental of cheesecake sleds on the street. Bottom. Then you will be taken to the street. Zhuzha and back. The 10-minute trip is full of unforgettable sensations. Try them out!
You can ride the Banana on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11.00 to 13.30 and from 14.00 to 18.00. Ten minutes of such a trip will cost 200 rubles (100 rubles for a child’s ticket).
Such winter entertainment will not leave anyone indifferent and will help you forget that you are within the city.
If you love skiing and decide to devote a day to active recreation in Kolomenskoye, then we suggest that you combine impressions of the unique winter beauty of our reserve, physical activity and deepening your knowledge about the ancient Kolomenskoye land. A quest, or rather a ski quest, the route of which will pass along the Museum of Wooden Architecture, the Zaansk House of Peter I, along the cozy embankment of the Moscow River, past the skyward Church of the Ascension of the Lord and the majestic Church of John the Baptist in Dyakovo to the oldest human settlement, known throughout the world , like the Dyakovo settlement, will help you take a fresh look at the history of not only Kolomenskoye itself, but also the history of our capital in general. Having received skis and a ticket for the quest at the Fairgrounds, you will need to activate the game through your mobile device, go to the beginning of the ski slope and - hit the road for new sensations and new knowledge! And a selfie taken against the backdrop of the 1532 church – the Church of the Ascension of the Lord – will preserve this unique day for you for many years.
Izmailovo
A new ski route 1 km long will appear on Izmailovsky Island. So on the territory of the former royal estate it will be possible not only to visit exhibitions and take part in excursion programs, but also to go skiing.
Lefortovo
Two ski trails, 2 km and 1 km long, will appear in Lefortovo Park. Skiers and other park visitors will be able to take a breather and refresh themselves in the warm and cozy café pavilion next to the Lower Children's Playground.
Lyublino
With the onset of cold weather, a hockey rink with a rental point will open in the Lyublino Estate, where you can choose skates and protective equipment according to your size. Admission is free. The rental office will be open on weekends and holidays from 11-00 to 21-00. Here you can also rent skates for 200 rubles per hour.
This year in Moscow there are many places for winter entertainment where you can come and relax with the whole family. One of them is the Sadovniki park in the Southern District. Our correspondent found out what you can do on its territory. Read more in the “Tested by yourself” section.
Park "Sadovniki"
This winter, Sadovniki Park has traditionally become a place for winter recreation. Both adults and children can find something to do here. For lovers of skiing, the park has a track and rental of the necessary equipment.
On Fontannaya Square near the main pavilion there is a tubing slide - a great way for daredevils to experience all the delights of winter extreme sports. It is equipped with two ramps - one of them is three and the second is six meters long. The park also has a slide for children with a natural descent.
But the most interesting novelty of this season is the rental of winter bicycles. They come in two types - tracked and on rubber with spikes. These bikes have excellent cross-country ability even in deep snow. They will bring a lot of pleasure to those who decide to ride them.
On the eve of the holidays, the park is decorated with illuminations, as well as a large fir tree in the central square. At night, “Gardeners” becomes a truly magical place that you don’t want to leave.
This year, in the park you can not only relax on the weekend, but also celebrate the New Year. On the night of December 31 to January 1, visitors will enjoy a jazz concert. Famous bands “Jazz Forever!” will perform on the main stage of the park. Band", "Alfa Music Jazz" and "The Beat Love" - the official tribute group of "The Beatles" in Russia. At midnight, the president’s traditional New Year’s address will be heard from the big screen, and at 1:00 a.m. fireworks will be launched.
Parks of the Southern Administrative District
This year you can plunge into winter activities not only at Gardeners. Thus, ski slopes and tubing slides also operate in the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. In Kolomenskoye this winter a skating rink with an area of 3 thousand square meters has been completed. In addition, visitors can ride on an inflatable Banana sleigh attached to a snowmobile.
P.S.
Residents of the Southern District will not be bored this winter. Local parks offer plenty of activities to keep you busy throughout the season. And in Sadovniki Park you can celebrate the New Year in an exciting way without leaving home.
New Year's holidays are a wonderful time for a family vacation. Finally, you can find time for long leisurely walks, visiting museums, ice skating, or just going on snow slides.
Yes, you can come up with a lot of things when you have so much free time.
Our family was incredibly lucky in the new year 2016, and this is primarily due to the choice of location.
Yesterday we decided to visit the well-known Kolomna Park and our walk lasted two days.
So, I'll start in order.
Kolomenskoye Park has a fairly large territory and that is why one day was not enough for us.
We started with a visit to the Pasechnik Estate.
This exhibition is a small courtyard behind a fence, on the territory of which there are beehives, a well, and somewhere under the snow, beds and flower beds can be discerned.
Well, actually the house-museum itself.
Inside is a rather small room with period decorations.
Stoves, tubs, beds, pots, irons and so on.
The second half of the house is an exhibition dedicated to the technical part of beekeeping.
I can't say it's very interesting. For an adult it’s just curious, but for a child it’s informational.
For our three-year-old, everything was new and for him this visit turned out to be useful and informative.
A visit to the beekeeper’s house will take no more than 15-20 minutes.
A wonderful cozy temple. As expected, there are scarves and skirts at the entrance. True, in winter this is not particularly relevant.
And very close by are the Front Gate Ensemble, 1672-73, the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.
The church houses a museum dedicated to the history of the creation of this temple.
The second floor is closed and all exhibitions are located on the first floor.
The room consists of two halls and the entire excursion will not take more than ten minutes.
Immediately behind the church there is an observation deck on the Moskva River embankment.
Even in winter there is an excellent view. True, it is industrial and urban.
The observation deck is equipped with telescopes, they are easily adjusted according to different parameters, but in winter the eyepieces become very foggy and the image is not very sharp.
Continuing your walk along the embankment you come across various architectural monuments.
There are also a lot of toilets on site. There is no need to look for them, as they are found almost everywhere. Moreover, there are also ordinary warm toilets and blue cubicles.
In this regard, the walk is very comfortable, including with a child.
In addition to the fact that there is something to see and visit in Kolomenskoye, there are also enough places for active recreation and entertainment.
A wonderful town with attractions, a skating rink,
Panda Park.
There are wonderful slides where you can have a great ride if you buy cheesecakes for a reasonable fee.
This pleasure costs 150 rubles for half an hour.
Everything is organized wisely.
There are a lot of people, but there is no crowd.
The ascent and descent are separated by a mesh. There is a caretaker downstairs who really keeps order. The slides are smooth, hilly and long.
You can safely consider this entertainment safe, and pleasure is guaranteed.
After riding the slides, we began to freeze and headed out to have a snack.
On one of the streets there is a row of elegant houses. Each has its own name (coffee shop, refectory, etc.), and there is a menu at the entrance. And you can choose a suitable establishment in advance.
In addition, along all the paths there are various tasty stalls where you can buy hot corn, donuts, tea or coffee, and so on.
We chose the Tea Room.
A small house in Russian style, with wooden tables and benches. It’s not interesting to sit there for a long time, but it’s ideal for warming up and having a snack.
We were three adults and one child.
Tea, coffee for everyone, a portion of pancakes with condensed milk, three portions of shish kebab and juice cost us 1,800 rubles.
Satisfied and well-fed, we continued our excursion and headed to the Peasant and Blacksmith Estates.
These are two adjacent exhibitions, but independent.
The Peasant's Estate is a full-fledged visit to a large two-story house-museum and a courtyard with a stable.
A horse and a huge beautiful brown cow live in the stable.
The animals are well-groomed and very cute, but very unfriendly.
The horse kept trying to bite, and the cow regularly butted.
So be careful with children when visiting the stables.
This is a very interesting exhibition and takes a lot of time.
But visiting the Blacksmith's Estate was even more interesting.
First you visit the house itself with its decorations, and then you go to the blacksmith herself.
And that's what's interesting! Blacksmith is not an exposition! She's the real one. A real blacksmith works there and you can watch his work as much as you like.
It was interesting for us adults - we were all at the blacksmith for the first time. Well, the little one was very impressed by the visit!
It was late in the evening, there was a lot more to see and visit, but we had to choose what we would have time for. And we decided to take a wonderful excursion on a fabulous train.
We headed to the Front Gate, where the departure point of this train is located.
In a souvenir shop located nearby, I bought train tickets (adults 100 rubles, children under three years old free. Ours is 3.5, but they let him through anyway), and also bought a souvenir whistle for 100 rubles
and within five minutes we were off on our journey.
The train is very comfortable and elegant. Divided into sections of approximately four people.
A train ride is not only a pleasure ride, but also an excursion.
The entire journey (about 15 minutes) there is an audio tour in the cabin. It tells about the history of the population of Kolomenskoye, and then about the most remarkable place - the palace of Alexei Mikhailovich.
Passing the ravines, the train arrives at the final point of its route - the palace.
This huge palace is a remake, but that doesn’t make it any less beautiful. In addition, it preserves quite a few genuine things of great historical value.
The area around the palace is not large and other than visiting the palace itself, there is nothing else to do there.
In winter, it will be difficult to return on foot, so you should immediately take care of return train tickets.
It runs every hour and tickets are sold strictly on time.
Therefore, you need to plan your time in advance.
The most optimal time to visit the palace is approximately 1.5-2 hours.
Inside the palace is interesting not only for adults, but also for children.
There are many rooms, many exhibits - all this helps to feel the spirit of that time.
For the convenience of visiting, shoe covers are provided, and there are several dressing rooms.
We really enjoyed the final part of our excursion, but time was running out and we ran to our magical trailer.
It turns out it was already dark and the surroundings became even more beautiful.
Towards the end we admired the lights of the evening Kolomna Park and went home.
Well, finally, I’ll tell you that Kolomenskoye regularly hosts concerts and events for big and small, and their schedule can be seen at each entrance. And we didn’t even walk around a fifth of the park.
Therefore, I have no doubt that each of you will be able to think through your own equally interesting excursion route.
Have a nice holiday and enjoy your holiday.
See you again!
Kolomenskoye is one of the most popular recreation parks in Moscow. Located at the metro station of the same name. But this is not only a park, but also an estate and a museum-reserve. That is why thousands of people visit it every day. On weekends, especially in the late afternoon, from the Kolomenskaya metro station there is one continuous stream of people along the narrow sidewalk heading towards the park-estate.
Scheme of Kolomenskoye Park. The park is quite large, you can see this by clicking on the picture below (will open in a new tab):
I visited Kolomenskoye more often than other parks in Moscow. In 3 years of living in the capital, this is the only park where I have been more than three times. There are many interesting places in Moscow where you can go, but time and weekends are short. There are even fewer weekends with good weather. Therefore, visiting the same places constantly is, in my opinion, an irrational use of time. I want to see something new, get new impressions.
Accordingly, the question arises: “What did Kolomenskoye deserve such close attention?”
The answer is simple: it’s beautiful here and there’s a lot to see.
It’s beautiful here in the spring, when the apple trees bloom in the Resurrection Garden, and sweet aromas float through the park. And no less, and perhaps even more beautiful in the fall, when all the trees turn yellow and red, fallen colorful leaves rustle under your feet, in which children love to swarm. In spring and autumn, on a nice sunny day, there are especially many vacationers with cameras. The backdrop of blossoming apple trees in spring and yellow-red foliage in autumn makes for great photos.
In the summer, this is a beautiful park where you can have a good rest, breathe in fresh air, no matter how trivial it may sound, take a walk along the Moskva River embankment, ride a boat or a motor ship (several routes pass through Kolomenskoye). Exhibitions of sand sculptures are traditionally held here annually, which for some reason I never had the chance to attend.
On holidays, Kolomenskoye becomes one of the venues for concerts and celebrations. In winter there are fewer people in Kolomenskoye than in the warm season. I, too, was here only once in winter - for Maslenitsa. Still, in the cold you don’t really want to walk in parks; you prefer some warm indoor spaces.
From the history of Kolomenskoye
The history of Kolomenskoye begins in the 14th century. It was from this time that the first written mentions of him date back. According to legend, the village of Kolomenskoye was founded by residents of the city of Kolomna, who fled from the troops of Batu Khan, who burned their city. Kolomenskoye was the country residence of the Russian tsars. By their order, churches and temples were built here. In 1528-1532 By decree of Vasily III, the Church of the Ascension of the Lord was built, which became the summer house church of the Russian rulers. In 1547-1554. Ivan the Terrible erects the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist - a prototype on Red Square.
Church of the Ascension of the Lord.
The Kolomenskoye estate was the favorite residence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. During his reign it reached its peak. Alexey Mikhailovich is building a huge palace here with 270 rooms. contemporaries called it the eighth wonder of the world. But this miracle stood for only 100 years. After the transfer of the capital of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the palace gradually deteriorated and in 1767 it was ordered to be dismantled, making detailed measurements and drawings. Based on these drawings, the palace was recreated in our time and is now accessible to everyone.
Voznesensky Garden. Its area is 5 hectares. This is one of the oldest gardens in Moscow. It is part of the Big “Old” Tsar’s Garden in Kolomenskoye. There are about 880 trees in the garden, mostly apple trees.
On the territory of the Voznesensky Garden there are the oldest Kolomna oaks. They are almost 400 years old. According to one legend, Tsarevich Peter Alekseevich, the future Emperor Peter I, learned to read and write under the shade of these oak trees.
Palace pavilion 1825- the only building remaining from the Alexander Palace. The Alexander Palace was built to replace the dilapidated and completely destroyed by the French army during the war of 1812, the Catherine Palace. The new palace became a kind of monument to Russia's victory in the war with Napoleon. But Alexander I was never able to live in his new palace. The palace was built in 1825, and on November 19, 1825 the Tsar died in Taganrog. Subsequently, the Alexander Palace in Kolomenskoye fell into disrepair and was dismantled. All that remained of it was this pavilion, which was probably used as a tea house or home theater.
House of Tsar Peter Alekseevich in Kolomensky Park. Built in 1702 by Russian and Dutch craftsmen at the mouth of the Northern Dvina on Markov Island. In documents of the 18th-19th centuries. it was called a palace. Peter I lived in it for two and a half months in the summer of 1702 during the construction of the Novodvinsk fortress, which was supposed to protect the approaches to Arkhangelsk. In 1864, the fortress lost its military significance, and it, together with the house, was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Arkhangelsk diocesan department. In 1877, the house was moved to the center of Ankhangelsk for better preservation. And in 1930, the house was dismantled and moved to Moscow, the interior from the time Peter the Great lived there was restored, and now everyone can see it, both outside and inside.
In the twenties of the last century, the famous Russian architect P.D. Baranovsky. begins to create an open-air museum of wooden architecture on the territory of the estate. Wooden architectural monuments began to be brought from all over Russia to Kolomenskoye. This is how we ended up here: the tower of the Bratsk fortress, the Mokhovaya tower of the Sumsk fortress and the Holy Gate of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery.
Tower of the Bratsk prison- one of the four corner towers of the Bratsk fort, built by the Cossacks on the Angara River, a monument to defensive architecture of the 17th century. Archpriest Avvakum was once imprisoned in one of these four towers. When the Bratsk hydroelectric power station was built, the place where the fort was located fell into a flood zone and one of the towers was transported to Kolomenskoye and restored.
Moss Tower- part of the Sumy fortress-fortress, which defended the northern possessions of Russia in the 17th century. By the 20th century, only two of its 6 towers had survived. In 1931, everything that remained of the Mokhovaya Tower was dismantled and transported to Kolomenskoye, where it was kept in the museum’s storerooms for almost 80 years. In 2003, restorers took over the work and managed to restore the monument to the way it was in 1680.
Holy (Traveling) Gate of the Nikolo-Karelian Monastery were part of the Nikolo-Karelian monastery, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina into the White Sea. The gates were built in 1662. And in 1932 they were transported to Kolomenskoye.
IN beekeeper's estate you will be able to get acquainted with the life and activities of a Russian beekeeper at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. There is a wooden house with living rooms and utility rooms, a personal plot with an apiary itself. I just don’t know if there really are bees in the hives or if they’re just some kind of mock-ups.
There are excursions around Kolomenskoye, where you will be told in detail about the sights mentioned here and its other attractions. Tour desk phone number: 8-499-615-27-68 (71).
“Bad Notes” by Dmitry Krylov in Kolomenskoye:
