Saturday, 3 October 2026

One of my favourite buildings in Moscow: the seventeenth-century water-lifting tower at Kolomenskoye

One of my favourite buildings in Moscow: the seventeenth-century water-lifting tower at Kolomenskoye

I have always been drawn to its elegance, achieved with rather modest decoration and a simple form.

The brick tower is 40
metres high. In its day it served as a gateway in the enclosure wall and supplied water to the Sovereign's Court.

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