Bol'shoy Vystavochnyy Zal Izmaylovo

In 1654 Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov became the owner of the Izmailovo boyar patrimony with its vast lands. Since that time, Izmailovo, which attracted the tsar with hunting grounds, has been part of the palace economy. From the beginning of the 60s of the 17th century, grandiose construction began: several hundred peasants laid roads, dug ponds, built dams, and erected buildings for the palace complex. Izmailovo was transformed into one of the economically important tsarist economic estates of a new type, where the largest experimental farm of its time was created, which included vast fields, a pharmaceutical garden, a linen manufactory, a glass factory, 37 ponds, apiaries, mills, and butter churns. New varieties of agricultural crops were bred here, the first agricultural machines were invented and applied. But the center of the economic territory was the palace estate, built in 1671-1682. on an artificial island. Until now, the Bridge Tower (1671-1679), the Intercession Cathedral (1671-1679), the Front and Rear Entrance Gates (1679-1682) have survived from the 17th century buildings on Izmailovsky Island. The exposition in the Great Exhibition Hall presents fragments of the Izmailovo "Lion" gate, preserved thanks to the efforts of the architect-restorer Pyotr Dmitrievich Baranovsky, a unique collection of drawings of Izmailovo lands of the 17th century, tiles, agricultural tools and much more. As a result of the re-exposure, the exhibition featured highly artistic monuments of wooden and white stone carvings of the 17th century, a genuine water pipe of the 17th century, bricks with the hallmarks of tsarist brick factories, and a telescope from the Venetian workshop of Leonardo Semitekolo.