3456 RUSSIA (Moskow Oblast) - Gorki Leninskiye

3456 Gorki Leninskiye

Located 10 kilometers south of Moscow city limits, Gorki Leninskiye (meaning "Lenin's Gorki") is placed on a high bank of the River Turovka close to where it flows into the River Pakhra. The estate of Gorki belonged to various Muscovite noblemen from the 18th century. Zinaida Morozova, the widow of the magnat Savva Morozov, purchased it in 1909, and engaged the most fashionable Russian architect, Fyodor Schechtel, to remodel the mansion in the then current Neoclassical style, complete with a six-column Ionic portico.

2850 RUSSIA (Moscow Oblast) - Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kolomna

2850 Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kolomna
at the beginning of the 20th century

Founded in 1140-1160 at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka Rivers, tying upstream and lowstream waters of these two important river routes of Central Russia, Kolomna emerged as a place for trades and crafts. As a frontier town, it served as a protective shield for Ryazan against Prince Vladimir's invasions, and then for Moscow against Crimean and Kazan Tatars. Therefore in the 16th century was built a kremlin, similar to the more famous one in Moscow and also built of red brick.

2323 RUSSIA (Moscow Oblast) - Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad (UNESCO WHS)

Situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is a world famous spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular site of pilgrimage and tourism. This religious and military complex represents an epitome of the growth of Russian architecture and contains some of that architecture’s finest expressions. It exerted a profound influence on architecture in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe.

0846 RUSSIA (Moscow Oblast) - The mansion house in Marfino

Marfino, a rural locality located several kilometers northeast of the town of Lobnya, on the right bank of the Ucha River, is notable for an old aristocratic estate, of which main house (sometimes referred to as a palace), standing on a hill, was built in the 18th century, being rearranged in the 1830s in the Gothic revival style by architect Mikhail Bykovsky. The brick house has two floors and a rectangular shape, and two more houses are located at the sides. A staircase descends from the palace to the pond, and the bridge over the pond, originally built in the 18th century, was also remodeled in 1830. After the revolution of 1917, the estate was nationalized, in 1933 it was transferred under the Ministry of Defense, and currently hosts a sanatorium.