Part of the old monastery at Kolomenskoe. The churches are still operating, but the rest is a museum and public park. On display is the wooden hut in which Peter the Great lived when he first spent time at Archangelsk overseeing construction of the fort there, before St Petersburg was founded. There is also a massive orchard, plus archaeological diggings. We saw people giving a concert of what could only be described as flat bells. They were pieces of metal hanging from frames which were tapped with felt-covered sticks, much as one would a xylophone. It was a very beautiful sound and carried a long way in the crisp air.
