Exhibitions
0+Peter the Great: The Birth of a Maritime Power
Kolomenskoe
Andropov Avenue, 39, building 12
An updated exhibition in the Cabin of Peter the Great, an architectural monument of federal significance built in 1702. The interior spaces, beloved by several generations and reopened after restoration work, feature more than 100 authentic exhibits from the 17th–19th centuries from the museum-reserve collection.
Visitors can visit the Dining Room, Study and Bedchamber of the Tsar himself, look into the orderly's room and examine the supplies of the Tsar's pantry. In the entrance hall, the so-called vestibule, learn about the beginning and development of navigation and shipbuilding in Russia, as well as about the construction and life of Peter I's Cabin itself, called by contemporaries the "Tsar's chambers" or the "Palace".
Among the exhibits, the following deserve special mention: publications on maritime affairs, translated into Russian by order of Peter - "The Theory of Ship Construction, Containing Several Mathematical Works on a New and Unusual Subject" by Paul Gost, "A Book Teaching Sea Navigation" by Abraham de Graaf; a model of the galley "Dvina" - was laid down at one of the shipyards of St. Petersburg in 1721 and became part of the Baltic Fleet of Russia; tin and copper utensils of Peter's time of the most diverse forms and purposes.
The "Petrine" theme is presented in Kolomenskoye in a multifaceted and wide manner. Centuries-old oaks, 18th-century anchors in the immediate vicinity of the Domik, cannons from the Northern War on Voznesenskaya Square, artistic reconstructions of the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and the Dutch House of Peter I, a monument to Peter I by Georgy Frangulyan. And finally, the palace village of Izmailovo, where young Peter found an English boat in the barn of the Linen Yard, on which he sailed to Izmailovo, Preobrazhenskoye, Kolomenskoye - with which, in fact, the history of naval affairs in Russia begins. All these historical parallels and analogies are reflected and emphasized within the new exhibition "Peter the Great: the Birth of a Maritime Power". For the first time, a multimedia segment is included in the context of the exhibition, which introduces the long-term history of the movements of the House.
The interior exhibition is complemented by a fascinating and educational interactive children's complex. With the help of games on a marine theme and tactile copies of exhibits, young visitors will get acquainted with models of ships of Peter the Great's fleet, practice tying old sea knots, and get acquainted with art and everyday objects of the past.