* What is a Posad? This is the area outside the fortress wall. Since it was forbidden to settle inside the Kremlin until the end of the XVIII century, it is here that artisans, merchants, and burghers. Commercial life was "bustling" in the Posad. Kolomna Posad is special — it is the best preserved among other medieval towns near Moscow and has survived to this day almost unchanged. Ancient temples and civil buildings of the XVIII—XIX centuries have been preserved on the territory of Kolomenskoye Posad. Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pilnyak, Marina Tsvetaeva and many other writers, poets, and musicians who visited Kolomna strolled along the streets of Kolomenskoye Posad. In addition, there are a large number of museums in the Posad: the Pastila Museum, the Pastila Museum Factory, the Artkommunalka, the Kalachnaya and many others! Main facilities: • The former shopping area, where fragments of the preserved shopping malls are located • Old Believers Church of St. Nicholas in the Posad • The Intercession Church with a restored English, or, as it was also called, a landscape garden, where rare varieties of apple trees have already been planted • Monument to the Water Carrier • A unique object of contemporary art: "The Angel of Yerofeyev's Crown" • The Temple of the Great Martyr Nikita, which is associated with the childhood and youth of the famous writer Gilyarov-Platonov • Merchant mansions, buildings where manufactories were once located, the famous "Governor's House" (the oldest building in Kolomenskoye Posad) and other civil buildings of the XVIII—XIX centuries • The Church of the Epiphany in Gonchary, which operated even during the Soviet years • The Courtyard of the Wizard of Oz, museums and more