Golosov ravine in Kolomna Park. Mysterious Kolomenskoye, goose stone, maiden stone, pagan temple, Velesov ravine

Behind me I can see the so-called Devil's Town, a rather high hill with a flat top, on which once, a long time ago, there was a pagan temple. In general, the Slavs called those places where, before their arrival, some kind of ritual centers already existed, damned. Together with the hill on which the village of Dyakovo is located, it forms a pair of high hills separated by a deep ravine. This ravine, called Golosov or Volosov, and both of these places, the Devil’s Town and the Dyakovskoye Settlement, are all such a complex of very ancient and mysterious settlements that existed in these places at least three thousand years ago.

The Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist in the village of Dyakovo, the same one in whose dungeons Ignatius Stelletsky was looking for the library of Ivan the Terrible, is now under restoration. Who knows, maybe during the restoration work we will be able to find something truly valuable in these basements. But in any case, the important thing here is that, firstly, it is crowned with a multi-meter cultural layer, the earliest layers of which date back to at least the 1st millennium BC. And secondly, the name of this church was given for a reason. This very Head of John the Baptist, Beheaded, which can be seen on the mosaic, most likely this name was given because ritual sacrifices were carried out at this place even before our Slavic ancestors came to these places.

Who lived in these places until the 7th century BC? e. not entirely clear. Well, someone lived, some ancient autochthonous population. But in the 7th century, apparently, some new peoples came from the west, mixed with the ancient autochthonous population of these places and already formed the Finno-Ugric ethnos. More precisely, one of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which was called Merya. The Merya were at one time a fairly strong people, they were naturally pagans, they worshiped all sorts of terrible deities. And somewhere around the first centuries of our era, the calm life of Merya was disrupted, because the Goths came here from Scandinavia.

The Goths, having come to these places, imposed taxes on the Merya. Well, it is clear that there is no written evidence left, but it was from this moment that the Merya began literally industrial hunting for fur-bearing animals. This is confirmed by archaeological evidence. And throughout the distribution area of Gothic culture, furs are becoming fashionable. Subsequently, these lands became part of the so-called Empire of Germanaric, the Gothic commander. So Muscovites can well be proud of the fact that their region has been part of the great common European culture, at least since the first centuries of our era. True, Moscow, at that time, was, of course, not a city, much less a big city. The total population was small, but, nevertheless, the culture existed and the culture was very developed. It is actually called the Dyakovo culture, which existed from about the 7th century BC. e. to 7th century AD e. But then very strange things happened.

In the 7th century, these settlements became empty, for no reason, inexplicably: no epidemic, no war. Three centuries of oblivion begin. 300 years later, in the 10th century AD, the Slavs came here. They find abandoned ancient settlements here, surrounded by palisades, skulls yellowed by time on stakes, traces of sacrifices, images of gods carved from stone, and two huge stones. Stones that still puzzle both scientists and simply curious residents of our city.

At the top of the slope is the Goose stone. Do not believe articles on the Internet that the Goose lies at the bottom, it is located higher. Apparently the authors of these articles have never been to the ravine in Kolomenskoye and have not seen the Gus stone. He is considered to be the personification of an ancient pagan male deity. The Goose stone is believed to have received its name for its somewhat ribbed surface, reminiscent of rough goose skin. But in fact, the Goose is a sacred bird in Finno-Ugric mythology. In general, there is a very ancient legend about several birds that dived to the bottom of the primordial ocean and tried to get the sun from there. And so, one got the sun, and the other was fidgeting in the mud. This is a very ancient legend, it is believed that it is more than 40 thousand years old. Here is a goose in Finno-Ugric mythology, this is exactly the bird that took silt or dirt from the bottom of the ocean, spat it out into dead water and thus actually created our world. This is a very ancient deity, chthonic, i.e. underground. By the way, this is also hinted at by the hole in the ground; people still come to him, men who need to solve some health problems. They say you need to sit on it for problems to be solved. At the bottom of the ravine there is another stone called Devy. Well, as you might guess, he plays the role of such an assistant for girls and women. Accordingly, if they have any problems, they need to come and tie a ribbon on a tree, sit on a pebble and everything will go away. Virgo is also a goddess from Finno-Ugric mythology, she is also a chthonic underground goddess. Also an extremely ancient cult, which, by and large, gave rise to many later stories, including Slavic folklore, and about Kashchei and Baba Yaga, etc. They say that the Devy Stone even cures infertility, but in general about Kolomenskoye, and in particular about Golosov Ravine, they tell a lot of things that you can believe in, or you can be skeptical about it. Well, for example, there is a legend that the stream that flows along Golosov Ravine does not freeze in winter. This is generally not true. Anyone who comes on a rather frosty day can be convinced that the stream freezes just like all the others. They say that the compass needle does not behave here the way it should behave. There is also no documentary evidence of this. And finally, there are many legends that a goblin or a snowman was seen in Golosovo Ravine, and also that from time to time some kind of greenish fog appears here in which people disappear. People don't just disappear, they are transported through time. Well, this is perhaps the most interesting of the legends associated with Kolomensky.

One of the legends says that in 1621 a small detachment of Tatar cavalry appeared in Kolomenskoye from nowhere. The Tatars were quickly captured, interrogated and were surprised to find out that they considered themselves part of the large army of the Tatar Khan Devlet-Girey, who 50 years earlier had actually approached Moscow. But this detachment then, in 1571, entered the Golosov ravine and, driving between two large stones, fell into some kind of greenish fog, and having left the fog, the Tatars found themselves in the future, 50 years later, during the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov.

Be that as it may, Kolomenskoye is indeed a very interesting and very mysterious place on the map of modern Moscow. And in general, everyone who wants and has enough time can come here or to the territory of Devil’s Town in the summer to search right on the slopes of the hill. You can find the remains of the ancient material culture of the Dyakovo people, you can find ceramics. And here, in Golosovoy Ravine, you can, who knows, see this strange greenish fog or maybe witness some anomalous phenomena.

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Volosov ravine It has long been considered a mysterious and anomalous place. In the 60s, the “unclean” ravine became part of Moscow, but no one dared to build anything here. The bad place was declared a forest park and included in the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve. The ravine is located strictly from west to east; it seems to cut through the natural magnetic field of the Earth. A stream flows along the bottom of the ravine, formed by numerous springs gushing from under the hill. The ravine conditionally divides Kolomenskoye into two almost equal parts. The place is certainly one of the most important in the sacred geography of Moscow. On the slope and at the bottom Volosova There are two huge stones in the ravine. One pimply one, lying on the slope of a ravine, is called Devy, and the other in the lowland is called Horse Stone. Each weighs about five tons. The bulk of these boulders are located in the ground. Small peaks emerge to the surface. Legend says that these are the remains of a serpent (Serpent, Lizard - one of the symbols of the god Veles), with which St. George the Victorious, a Christian saint, fought. It must be said that many legends of Kolomenskoye are connected with St. George the Victorious. For example, numerous sources of legend declare that they are the tracks of George’s horse. The legends themselves were naturally invented by Christians; they, according to their plan, symbolize “the victory of Orthodoxy over “obscurantism” - our ancestral worldview”... It is believed that if on the bottom stone by the name " Horse“If a man sits, his “male” strength will increase.

Goose stone or Horse. Kolomenskoye.

Upper, "" - treats women's diseases, infertility. Ufologists claim that the stones are connected with space and that repeatedly in the sky above Kolomensky saw a UFO.

Maiden stone. Kolomenskoye.

Volosov Ravine is the gateway to the underworld!

In 1995-96 Scientists from the Institute of General Physics carried out measurements of electromagnetic fields here. Moscow stands on the "Russian Platform", a very strong geological formation, but each platform has its own faults. One of the largest just passes under Hair ravine(!). Traces of ancient volcanic activity were also found here. Powerful radiation comes out through the fault, and the location from west to east, as I noted above, cuts through the natural magnetic field of the Earth. The excess of the norm for electromagnetic radiation in the ravine is more than 12 times, and near the boulders - more than 27 times (!). It has been noticed that sometimes mobile phones suddenly run out of charge, and the compass needle points from different places not to the north, but to the epicenter of an enchanted ravine...

Here are a few interesting tales from the history of this Place of Power:

MOSCOW "SNOW MAN": As I already wrote, in ancient times the Slavs called the ravine " Volosov" - in honor of the ancient deity Volos or Beles, the ruler of the underworld, the patron of the clan, domestic animals and the god of wealth (in all its manifestations). This could have been the name of the ravine by the ancient Finno-Ugric tribes who lived here long before the Slavs. The name of the god comes from the word "hairy", that is, shaggy. People have repeatedly seen "hairy people" in Hair Gully, mistaking them either for evil spirits or ghosts. They are also described in the chronicles of the times of the Moscow Tsar Ivan the Terrible. In 1926, a policeman came across a 2.5-meter-tall “haired savage” in thick fog and fired the entire clip of his revolver at him. The ghost disappeared into the fog. This case was described in the article by A. Ryazantsev “Pioneers catch the devil”....

WARRIORS FROM THE PAST: The Moscow chronicle of the 17th century describes an amazing story. In 1621, a small detachment of Crimean Tatar horsemen suddenly appeared at the gates of the royal palace in Kolomenskoye. After they were captured by the archers, the horsemen said that they were warriors of Khan Devlet-Girey, whose troops tried to capture Moscow in 1571, but were defeated. Hoping to escape pursuit, the cavalry detachment descended into Volosov ravine, shrouded in thick fog. The Tatars spent there, as it seemed to them, for several minutes, but emerged only 50 years later. One of the prisoners said that the fog was unusual, glowing with a greenish color, but in fear of being chased, no one paid attention to this. Moscow Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich (Romanov) ordered an inquiry, which showed: the Tatars were most likely telling the truth. Even their weapons and equipment no longer corresponded to the weapons of that time, but were more like outdated models of the second half of the 16th century....

MYSTERIOUS DUNGEON: Dyakovskaya Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. The exact date of construction of this five-domed temple is unknown, but historians suggest that it was founded by Ivan the Terrible in 1547 in memory of the wedding to the Muscovite kingdom. It was in Kolomenskoye that archaeologist I. Steletsky was looking for the mysterious library of Grozny. In 1938, having examined the hill that crowns the Church of the Beheading, Steletsky drew attention to the hilly area between the steep cliff and the floodplain of the Moscow River. It somehow stood out from the surrounding relief with its unnatural shape. The archaeologist consulted with a geologist, who confirmed his guess: this is an artificial formation consisting of a dump of sandy rock, while the upper layers of the soil contain loam. Hence the conclusion - in fact, large-scale excavation work was carried out on Dyakovsky Hill. Having started excavations, the archaeologist came across a massive limestone masonry at a depth of seven meters. But since the excavations were carried out on the territory of the church cemetery, soon, at the request of the residents of the village of Dyakova, they had to be stopped. Or maybe a trace of the NKVD?...

MYSTERIOUS STAIRWAY: On the eve of the Moscow Olympics-80, the chief engineer of the Mosoblstroyrestavratsiya department, V. Porshnev, supervised repair work in the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, then ownerless and abandoned. In the center of the temple, closer to the altar, a removed white stone floor slab was discovered, and compacted sand underneath it. When the workers began to rake it, steps of white stone were revealed, going down at an acute angle towards the western wall. Above the steps and the manhole was a large brick vault. We dug about a meter and a half - the stairs led further. The chief engineer and leading architect-restorer N. Sveshnikov ordered the metal door to be welded and locks installed. While they were negotiating with the management of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve about continuing the work, someone knocked down the locks at night and dug a hole four meters deep. Seeing this and not having the funds to continue the work, Sveshnikov and Porshnev decided to secure the interesting object: they covered it with sand, compacted it, filled it with concrete about half a meter and returned the white stone slab to its place...

KEEPER'S VERSION: About the search for Steletsky, the former chief curator of the Kolomenskoye Museum V. Suzdalev said that the archaeologist was looking for a library first in the tented Church of the Ascension. By laying pits in the foundation of the structure, he greatly irritated Kolomensky’s restorer, architect P. Baranovsky, who appealed to the authorities demanding that Stelletsky be prohibited from damaging the monument. As for the underground voids in the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, the church was equipped with a stove-air heating system, and, most likely, Suzdalev believes, construction workers stumbled upon one of the channels of this system in 1980. Moreover, old-timers of the museum said that in 1929 (three years after the “goblin” was seen in those places) Baranovsky himself excavated under the altar the tomb of the priest of the Dyakovo Church....

NUMBER 666: If you count the steps on the stone staircase to the bed of the ravine, there are sixty-six of them. And then, towards the Moscow River, another eighteen, that is, three times six (Oh, horror!). While setting up vegetable gardens, the local peasants (Christians) more than once came across human bones at the site of the steps and nicknamed this place “the devil’s town”...

THE DISAPPEARING TRIBE: Archaeologists have established: it was on a hill near Hair Gully The first inhabitants of the capital of Muscovy, the Finno-Ugric tribe Merya, settled. According to one version, the “geldings” sacrificed all foreigners to their gods, and the bones found are traces of ritual sacrifices. Subsequently, the ancient “Muscovites” themselves disappeared without a trace as an entire tribe at the beginning of the 8th century AD, 300 years before the official founding of Moscow; their culture is no longer recorded by archaeologists. These three centuries are also not reflected in the chronicles and legends.

LOCATION: It is better to get here by the former apple “orchards and vegetable gardens”, not from the main entrance to the museum-estate, from the Kolomenskoye metro station and the Orbita cinema, but from the Kashirskaya metro station.

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"There are traces of unseen animals on unknown paths"

And you, of course, thought that these were all inventions and fairy tales, as they say, of Pushkin? ;) Eh, no, let me disagree with you on this point. And this is exactly what this place is called - Volosov ravine- wonderful, anomalous, legendary ravine :)

Well, let's hasten to add our tracks to those of unprecedented animals? ;)

Here is the ravine, here is its beginning (hmm, where is the head of the ravine) near the Moscow River. The stream at the bottom of the ravine has been gone for a long time, until I remove the veil of mystery :) However, as they usually say in such cases) - the stream has become younger, acquired decorative banks in the form of stonework. The stream in the anomalous ravine gurgles cheerfully and not at all anomalously, it gurgles, perhaps, just like all the others - no better, no worse + Shall we start looking for green fog?) In principle, if you first mow the grass and then smoke, then it’s green fog will be provided in any case) What do we know about green fog? :) Think, head, think) “The blue fog is like deception, the blue fog...”. No, the blue fog is probably from a completely different song :) Somewhere here the famous pebbles were buried, oh, that is, they drove the snake into the ground up to his ears :) Somewhere here these Yin and Yang of Moscow urban mythology :) Hmm , forgive my indiscretion - if these are all the remains of one Dragon (oh, dragons are being beaten!), then what gender was the Dragon? Was he really killed just because he was... No, I don’t even want to think... Ah!.. Or maybe it was a pair of Dragons in love... And they were waylaid and brutally killed in order to quickly compose a legend necessary for their status ? In vain... Dragons also know how to love and how... But the whole tribe accidentally disappeared, so maybe there was a dragon wedding the day before, almost like in Velorib and Velobadzhi, you also need to be understanding! And it wasn’t profitable for them to eat everyone in one fell swoop; they probably saved a couple of dozen people... for breeding small domesticated animals... so to speak...

Well, where are you glamorous ones, promoted by all the media, who are just too lazy to shake the air with or without reason, :) pebbles? The GIRL, with the gait of a city dweller who had had enough of a walk, walked towards him, stomping over the stones in vain. Oh, this is the right direction of the compass arrow, which will always point to rumors, legends and gossip :) Pebbles, awww... Sister Alyonushka is coming to you, but no, don’t sit - just look with one eye, as Ivan the Fool usually does and instantly gets into a bind :) And the pebbles are from a popular collection - a whole pilgrimage to the people - some ladies get up from the pebble, others immediately take their seats, according to the tickets they bought, as they say:) And here is the “male stone” - two pairs of young people: two girls and two guys are heading towards him. Half of the words are unintelligible, followed by deep laughter, then a remark-question: why is it lumpy?.. and laughter again... When the female population sat on their stone (grabbed since ancient times), everything was clear, but how interesting it was - really they, the strong half of humanity... too... oh well - we'll see... But the "male" stone, as expected, turned out to be dirty :) So the guys stood on it for a while... And during this time suddenly I thought - how long do you have to sit on this stone to cure female diseases before you get the result? Then I’m embarrassed to ask what the result is... Although the butt is big, it’s its own and can’t warm a stone weighing 5 tons even if it wants to :). It’s getting kind of sad and uninteresting here, but there’s still no fog, nothing green is smoking at the bottom :) Now I’ll walk along the bottom of the ravine far, far away and see where it ends... There’s already a place with fancy stones behind us , and almost immediately the laughter and loud talking died down... The ravine is getting steeper and steeper... again, did I put it wrong? Well, its walls are becoming steeper and steeper... Already the sun, to which you are walking along the ravine directly to the east, lies right on the hill, on one of the slopes of the ravine, but there is still no fog... A little more, a little more and , it seems that I’ll see the fog, even the fashionable one today, green, blue, whatever color, and I’ll rush up the steep slope :) But it all just seemed, but a more powerful argument for this: a hefty crowbar - a piece of reinforcement at the bottom of the ravine , here for some reason my thoughts return to reality on their own, and I climb the steep hill there, closer to the sun. Well, I’ll look at the ravine from above :) Hey, Bigfoot, haven’t any riders passed by? :) The ravine is like a ravine, only very steep, wandering along the top, looking at my shadow on the other side, I involuntarily feel like an Indian, slowly walking along the canyon at sunset :). Just as suddenly, the ravine and the stream ended, becoming quite small. An ordinary city stream with a rainbow from the most ordinary gasoline that comes here, God knows where:)

The Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve is famous for its open-air exhibition, the area of which exceeds 250 hectares. Its symbol was the Church of the Ascension, included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.

Every day, about 10 thousand people come to admire the estate, and they are attracted not only by the unique architectural monuments, but also by the numerous secrets that the former summer residence of the Russian tsars still keeps. Where to look for the library of Ivan the Terrible and whether it is possible to make a “leap” into the past by going down into Golosov Ravine – read the material on the online publication’s website.

Golosov Ravine: a time portal or an entrance to the underground kingdom?

Golosov ravine, which divides Kolomenskoye into two parts, has long become a hero of legends and traditions. Written evidence has brought to this day an amazing story that happened in Kolomenskoye in 1621. Then the archers were alerted, as a detachment of horsemen appeared out of nowhere at the gates of the grand-ducal palace. The uninvited guests looked as if they had come straight from the battlefield. Armed with crooked sabers and short bows, they sat on short horses, and their helmets were crowned with horse tails, like the warriors of the Golden Horde.

During the inquiry, the captives reported that they belonged to the army of Khan Devlet-Girey and decided to hide from their pursuers in a ravine, along the bottom of which a greenish fog was spreading. Deciding that the pursuit was over, the horsemen left the shelter and, as a result, unexpectedly found themselves at the gates of the palace, where they were captured by the archers. The sovereign's investigators were confused, because the mentioned khan Devlet-Girey died more than 40 years ago. How did it happen that the soldiers of his detachment stayed in Golosovo Ravine for almost half a century without even noticing it?

According to professional researcher of anomalous phenomena Vadim Chernobrov, this story should not be attributed to the wild imagination of its authors. How time actually passes in the ravine can be checked using a chronometer. This device is capable of recording differences in the speed of time even in hundredths and thousandths of a second. “While measuring this ravine, we did it several times, we came across several chronoanomalies, quite small,” Chernobrov said. The deviations are so small that they cannot be felt. Nevertheless, as the anomaly researcher believes, it is possible that under the influence of some factors this time gap can increase.

The story of the Tatar detachment is not the only surviving story about temporary “discrepancies” in Kolomenskoye. A note about a similar case appeared in 1832 in Moskovskie Vedomosti. According to the publication, in 1810, two peasants, Arkhip Kuzmin and Ivan Bochkarev, were returning home late in the evening - from the village of Dyakovo to the village of Sadovniki. Their path lay through a ravine, and at first the tipsy peasants did not attach much importance to the fact that a greenish fog was spreading along the bottom of the ravine. Only when they returned home did they learn with amazement that they had been away for more than 20 years.

Since ancient times, mystical properties have been attributed to Golosovo ravine. So, according to guide Mikhail Yushkevich, the pagan tribes that still lived in these parts considered it the entrance to another world. Later, a legend arose that it was here that the battle of St. George the Victorious with the serpent took place, and the ravine appeared at the site of the blow of the giant monster’s tail.

Geologists, of course, do not share the fabulous “theory” of the origin of the ravine. According to them, Golosov Ravine is a modified valley of an ancient river network, that is, it was formed as a result of the drainage of a river. Moreover, the stones that lie at the bottom of the ravine, in all likelihood, arrived in the capital from afar. According to Chernobrov, they were caught by a wave of a slowly moving glacier somewhere in the Karelian Isthmus region. Whether this is true or not, some of their boulders have already been “overgrown” with a dense layer of legends and beliefs.

Miracle stones and glacial water

The stones of Golosov Ravine - the Goose Stone and the Maiden Stone - both with their names and unusual shape, attract many adherents of alternative medicine. According to folk legends, all you have to do is sit on them and illnesses will disappear. And those who hope for the fulfillment of their most cherished desires tie ribbons not far from the miracle stones.

Scientists, in turn, are in no hurry to attribute any special properties to the stones. Although they differ from local rocks both in texture and geological composition, they do not possess healing qualities. “Instrumental methods to date have not shown any of the known, at least to science, types of radiation that would come from these stones,” said Vadim Chernobrov.

Anomaly researchers were much more interested in the temperature of the water in the stream, which originates in the ravine. Measurements showed that it is only +1.5 degrees, while the usual temperature of springs in central Russia varies from 4 to 8 degrees above zero. What kind of natural “glacier” is hidden in the upper reaches of the ravine, so that the water in the stream becomes not just cold, but icy? The answer to this question remains to be found.

At the same time, the stream in Kolomenskoye does not freeze even in the most severe cold weather. True, despite these unique properties, doctors do not recommend drinking this water, because it cannot be called environmentally friendly.

Unique acoustics and bell ringing

Where the name Golosova ravine came from remains a mystery. It comes either from the pagan Slavic god Veles, or from the voices that echo throughout the ravine. As Vadim Chernobrov explained, the ravine conducts sound perfectly. If bells ring at its top, their melody will be heard even at a distance of several kilometers in the lower reaches of the ravine.

No less famous for its excellent acoustics is the Church of John the Baptist in Dyakovo. Hegumen Alexy Ivanov explains this by the presence in the domed part of the church of golosniks - clay jugs of various sizes. “It’s interesting: the higher you go, the number of voice boxes is smaller, but they are larger in volume. Here in the very top tier, there the voice boxes are a jug with a capacity of about a hundred liters,” noted the abbot.

Chronicle sources suggest that the Church of John the Baptist was built in 1529. Some researchers consider it a prototype of the future St. Basil's Cathedral. Others put forward an even bolder hypothesis, saying that it was here that Ivan the Terrible could hide his legendary library - Liberia.

In search of the library of Ivan the Terrible

The first who seriously began searching for the legendary royal library on the territory of Kolomenskoye was archaeologist Ignatius Stelletsky. In 1938, he began excavations based on the story of the former guardian of the temple in Dyakovo. He claimed that he had previously accidentally found a secret staircase that led to iron doors guarded by a decayed skeleton. During excavations at a depth of seven meters, Stelletsky discovered massive stonework. However, soon the work had to be curtailed at the insistence of local residents, outraged by the excavations in the cemetery.

The mysterious staircase again came to the attention of historians only 40 years later. In 1980, during renovations, builders came across a buried underground passage. They began to free the cache from the sand, but then decided to stop the excavations, walling up the passage until better times.

What is hiding at the other end of the corridor: the secret storage of the collection of Ivan the Terrible or an ordinary church basement - still excites the minds of researchers and ordinary visitors to Kolomenskoye.

"The Eighth Wonder of the World" by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich

The beauty of these places did not leave other Russian rulers indifferent. So, by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a real palace-city was erected on the high bank of the Moscow River.

The finishing work lasted almost 20 years, but their result exceeded all expectations. Foreign guests who were lucky enough to cross the threshold of the royal residence could not contain their delight: the walls of the palace were decorated with gold leaf, the floors were covered with luxurious oriental carpets, and intricate paintings curled along the ceiling. In addition, as Andrei Topychkanov, a researcher at MGOMZ Kolomenskoye, said, the throne chamber, where the king’s throne was located, was decorated with mechanical figures of lions. “The 17th century was a time of admiration for mechanics, and these lions should have shocked the imagination of contemporaries, foreigners or courtiers,” Topychkanov emphasized.

During the time of Alexei Mikhailovich, lions were driven by a special hydraulic system, which plunged particularly impressionable foreign envoys into a state of shock. Thus, there is evidence that one day the Polish delegation, hearing a roar, ran away from the palace.

With the move of the capital to St. Petersburg, the palace ceased to receive the attention of the royal persons and quickly fell into disrepair. In the end, Catherine II decided to disassemble it, having previously drawn up detailed drawings and taken measurements of all elements of architecture and decor. It was thanks to these documents that Alexei Mikhailovich’s palace was restored, so it can also be considered a kind of “traveler” in time.

To take a short excursion to the Russian Middle Ages, it is not at all necessary to go down into the ravine in Kolomenskoye and wait for the mystical green fog to appear there. Even a simple inspection of the monuments and exhibitions of the museum-reserve will allow you to travel through time, and then just as quickly return “back to the future.”

(Before this, we went to the mysteries of the Kremlin and secret signs. Reports on past excursions can be found in my journal.)
I'll start with a brief historical background, official information, so to speak...

The village of Kolomenskoye, located on the road from Moscow to Kolomna, was founded, according to legend, by residents of the city of Kolomna who fled from Batu. The first written mention is in the spiritual charter (testament) of Ivan Kalita in 1336. Initially, it was the patrimony of the Moscow Grand Dukes, then the Tsars.
The heyday of Kolomenskoye is associated with the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich - Kolomenskoye was his favorite residence. In 1667-1668. A magnificent wooden palace was erected with 270 rooms. The single complex of the Sovereign's courtyard included wooden mansions with the house Kazan church, Sytny, Kormovoy, Khlebny or Khlebenny courtyards or palaces, Order chambers, Colonel's chambers and guardhouses. The entire sovereign's courtyard is surrounded by a fence with three gates: Front, Back, Garden. There are gardens around, surrounded by high tyn.

Well, now about the riddles. What interesting things we learned from the excursion:

About the mysterious disappearance of the Merya tribe, which lived here originally. Well, that is, it seemed to live, and then suddenly disappeared.
Our guide suggested the existence of a temporary portal here, but we will return to this later.

An interesting theory about the origin of the name “Kolomenskoye”: it seems that this land was inhabited by the Romans, among whom was the military leader Kolomen, and during archaeological excavations a gravestone with a corresponding inscription was even discovered.

Both assumptions seem fantastic, but that’s what secrets are for...

Well, here we come to the most mysterious place of Kolomenskoye - Golosov/Volosov/Velesov ravine.

Golosov ravine (Vlasov ravine, Golos-ravine) is a ravine in Moscow, on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The ravine stretches from the bank of the Moscow River to modern Andropov Avenue. On the bank of the ravine stands the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. In the ravine itself there are ancient stones that probably had sacred significance - the Goose Stone and the Devin (Maiden) Stone.

First of all, the ravine is a cult place of pagans. We’ll talk about the stones later, but for now let’s return to Kolomensky’s supposedly temporary portal, which is located in this ravine. In addition to rumors that creatures similar to Bigfoot live here, there are two very specific cases that were described in newspapers of those times.
In 1810, two peasants were returning home at night and decided to pass through the above-mentioned ravine, in which eyewitnesses from time to time noted a greenish glow. Well, they passed through the ravine and came out safely to their village, only they got there already in 1831. Then there was an investigation that never led to anything...
And the second case is connected with the troops of Devlet-Girey, who fled from Moscow through this ravine. As a result, hmm, the guards tied up, but 50 years after the invasion. The guards were very surprised by such guests.
What is this, legends, fiction or truth, is unclear...
Moreover, newspapers describing these phenomena were never found...
But as for the mysterious stones, this is a fact. Actually, even now there are numerous beliefs about female and male stones.
In fact, there are much more stones there. It is believed that there are either 8 or 9 of them.

Warm stone

Goose-stone

Devin stone

According to legend, the above-mentioned time portal is located between the Goose and Maiden stones.

There are springs nearby, one with good water and the other with bad water, again according to legend.

There is another legend about the origin of the ravine: in this place St. George the Victorious fought with the serpent, and when he missed, springs appeared.

Well, as for churches:

Vasily III built the famous tent-roofed Church of the Ascension here in 1528-1532.

There are no photographs, so this is a picture.

Ivan the Terrible, perhaps in honor of his crowning of the kingdom in 1547-1554. built the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist.

It is believed that this temple is to some extent a prototype of St. Basil's Cathedral

We are primarily interested in underground passages. This issue was actively studied by a lover of dungeons and the library of Ivan the Terrible, Stelletsky. He was looking for Liberia and here, he seemed to have some facts, he found underground passages under both churches. However, when he was already one step away from his goal, excavations, as usual, were banned.
But he noted the amazing hills on the territory that still exist today.

So the hills are sandy, and the soil here is loam. How can this be?
Subsequently, this issue was returned to when the temple was restored for the Olympics in Moscow. Then again we came across an underground passage from the church and a staircase, and again permission for excavation was not given. However, while conserving the move, the researchers noticed that there was someone in the dungeons... but, as usual, things didn’t go any further.
What kind of underground passages these are is still a mystery to this day...
But maybe there will be researchers this time too, and we will find out what secrets the Kolomenskoye dungeons keep...

DYAKOVO: In the former village of Dyakovo there is the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. There is also a large ravine here, nicknamed Golosov, which has long been considered a mysterious and anomalous place. Below are two huge stones - “Deviy” and “Goose”. In the 60s, the “unclean” ravine became part of Moscow, but no one dared to build anything here. The bad place was declared a forest park and included in the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve.

GOLOSOVOY GULISH: Located strictly from west to east, it is, as it were, . A stream formed by springs flows along the bottom of the ravine. Tradition says that these springs are the traces of the horse of St. George the Victorious. The ravine conditionally divides Kolomenskoye into two almost equal parts. One of them is civilized. There are museums, cafes and an observation deck here. The other part is “wild”. These are grassy hills, small groves and an old orchard.

STONES: One is smooth and is called Devy, and the other - pimply, as if covered with “goose skin” - is called Goose. Weight - about five tons each. Moreover, the bulk of these boulders are located in the ground. Small peaks emerge to the surface. One of the stones lies at the bottom of the ravine, the other on its high slope. Legend says that these are the remains of a snake with which St. George the Victorious fought. The bottom of the stones is “Goose”. It is believed that if a man sits on it, his “male” strength will increase. The top one is called the “Maiden Stone”, and treats female infertility. that the stones are connected with space and that they are repeatedly in the sky over Kolomenskoye. Followers of esoteric teachings are sure that the ravine is the most important place in. By the way: Virgo is a Finno-Ugric female underground goddess, and Goose is a sacred bird of Finno-Ugric mythology, swimming in the underground ocean and who once created everything that exists. Believers walk past the stones into the temple and consider the “route” sacred. According to legend, St. George the Victorious galloped here, and one of the stones looks like a two-meter horseshoe covered with scales. According to legend, it was near the Goose Stone that a detachment of Tatar-Mongol barbarians was located (see below).

Ribbons: It is believed that the stones have not lost their magical properties to this day. It is enough to touch their surface with your hand and make a wish. To be sure, you can tie a ribbon on the branches of a nearby tree. And then the stones, in which, according to legend, the spirits of the ancient pagan gods still live, will definitely help make your dream come true. The ravine in which the stones lie has another name - “Velesov” ravine, from the name of the pagan god Veles.

: In the documents of the police department of the Moscow province of the 19th century, cases of mysterious disappearances of residents of neighboring villages are noted. Two peasants from the village of Sadovniki, Arkhip Kuzmin and Ivan Bochkarev, who disappeared without a trace back in 1810, suddenly appeared... in 1831! They said that they were returning home from a neighboring village at night and decided to go through the Golosovo ravine, although this place was considered “unclean.” At the bottom of the valley, a thick fog swirled, in which some kind of “corridor, flooded with a whitish light” suddenly appeared! The peasants went there and met people covered with wool, who tried to show them the way back with signs. The peasants continued their journey, and when they arrived at the village, they saw their wives and children aged twenty years. The police intervened in the matter. At the insistence of the investigators, an experiment was conducted in the ravine, during which one of the peasants again disappeared into the fog and never returned. Another, upon seeing this, became depressed and subsequently committed suicide. This incident is described in the newspaper "Moskovskie Vedomosti" dated July 9, 1832. Documents of the Police Department of the Moscow Province related to the Kolomenskaya volost for the period 1825-1917 repeatedly note cases of mysterious disappearances of people among residents of the villages of Kolomenskoye, Dyakovo, Sadovniki and Novinki.