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Most of all, Kolomenskoye is a wonderful expanse of park that
attracts many people but never gets crowded. Part of the area is
taken up by the Museum of Wooden architecture, as which Kolomenskoye
began life in 1667 when Tsar Alexsei erected a wooden palace on the
premises. The haphazard arrangement of connecting corridors and
bulbous domes was pulled down by Catherine the Great, but not before
she ordered an exact model to be made, which is now housed in the
museum. |