Dutch House of Peter I

The Dutch House of Peter I at Kolomenskoe is an exact copy of the historic house located in Zaandam, the Netherlands, where in 1697, Tsar Peter stayed for 8 days studying shipbuilding at the local dockyard.

The copy house at Kolomenskoe stands on the right bank of the Zhuzha rivulet, near the Museum of Wooden Architecture. It appeared here in 2013 as a gift from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the museum as part of the Netherlands-Russian year of bilateral cooperation.

The original house, built in Zaandam in 1623, was constructed of wood remaining from old ships and was intended for workers. The copy, made in the original measurements, was transported to Kolomenskoe and assembled on site by Dutch military engineers.

You can visit the Dutch House at Kolomenskoe in the summer season, from 6 May to 1 October.

Did you know that…

• The house in Zaandam was granted to the Russian Tsars and formally, still remains the Russian royal family property. In 1818, to celebrate the birth of a grandson, the Netherlands king Willem I presented it to his daughter-in-law, Anna, sister of the Russian Tsar Alexander I. And in 1886, King Willem III presented the house to Tsar Alexander III. Today, it belongs ‘to the state of the Netherlands and the descendants of Tsar Nicholas II’.
• Among the original house visitors, there were members of the Russian and Netherlands royal house and even the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.