Krutitsy courtyard

Ancient corner of Moscow - Krutitsy
There is a special and amazing place in Moscow - the ancient Krutitskoye courtyard, a miraculously preserved piece of the past - ancient Moscow. The time-darkened brick of the main church buildings, the cobblestone square and pre-revolutionary residential wooden houses - everything here breathes history. Krutitskoye courtyard is rightfully called "a remarkable phenomenon of ancient Russian architecture." It is located in the southeast of the capital, on the left bank of the Moskva River, three kilometers from the Kremlin downstream of the Moskva River. The surviving architectural ensemble was built in the late. XVII - early. XVIII century.
Since 1991 Krutitsy has been the courtyard of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, where the Department for Youth Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church has been located since 2001.