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# There are two versions of the historical significance of this brick pillar in Kolomenskoye
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/sushchestvuet-dve-versii-istoricheskogo-znacheniia-etogo-kirpichnogo-stolba-v-kolomenskom/
- Published: 2026-09-16T16:32:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Moscow, Observations, Heritage

Some call it the petition pillar, to which petitions, that is, requests to the Tsar, were brought, and on which royal decrees were posted. I do not care for this version. Firstly, the Tsardom of Muscovy had a Petitions Office (Chelobitny Prikaz); secondly, what nonsense it is to carry complaints to some pillar: who received them? how were they registered? if there was a receiving clerk, what role did the round pillar play? Not to mention that nobody would have fixed royal decrees to a brick pillar barely a metre high.

The second version sounds more convincing. The object is also called the clock pillar, which looks closer to the truth: a clock could well have stood on it, with greater likelihood than a petition-receiving point.

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