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Article: Kizhi Island in the wilds of northern Russia houses a remarkable open-air assemblage of historic vernacular timber buildings.(View from Kizhi Island)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Majestically they rise up on the small island of Kizhi; an architectural ensemble of timber churches gracefully crowned by an array of cupolas, adorned with aspen shingles. For centuries, if not millennia, the small, outstretched Kizhi Island in Lake Onega has attracted attention. Located in the now Republic of Karelia in the Russian north, this once pagan ritual playground today houses a state-run museum of the region's monumental timber architecture. This includes a group of wooden churches built here in the eighteenth century and a later bell tower, as well as Orthodox-sanctified structures of crossroads and chapels that were relocated here. Together with impressively ...
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Article: The road to Irkutsk.(travels through Siberia)
Russian Life;
January 1, 2001 ;
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... ... transportation in Siberia. By the turn of the 18th century, a few brick churches were constructed, of which the Intercession Church is the best preserved, with decoration in the florid manner typical of late 18th-century Siberian architecture ...
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