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The Church of the Transfiguration (Russian: Церковь Преображения Господня) is the most remarkable part of the pogost. It is not heated and is, therefore, called a summer church and does not hold winter services. Its altar was laid June 6, 1714, as inscribed on the cross located inside the church. This church was built ...
The ensemble of the Turchasovsky pogost (Arkhangelsk region), 1780s-1790s. Lazar's Church from the Murom monastery in Kizhi (Karelia). Late 15th century (?) Probably the oldest monument of Russian wooden architecture. The spread of Christianity in Russia brought with it the need to build churches, which could not always be satisfied by stone ...
Kizhi (Russian: Ки́жи, IPA:; Karelian: Kiži) is an island near the geometrical center of Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia.It is elongated from north to south and is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide and is about 68 kilometres (42 mi) away from the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.
There are 89 wooden architectural monuments of the 15th to 20th centuries on the island. The most remarkable of those is Kizhi Pogost of the early 18th century which consists of a summer church with 22 domes, a winter church with nine domes, and a belfry. The pogost was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1990.
Pogost (Russian: погост, from Old East Slavic: погостъ [1]) is a Russian historical term which has had several meanings. In modern Russian, it typically refers to a rural church and graveyard.
The 13-story, 44-metre-tall (144 ft) [1] [2] residence of the local crime lord [citation needed] Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin was reported to be the world's, or at least Russia's, tallest wooden house, exceeding even the height of Kizhi Pogost, the tallest wooden church in Russia.
An off-duty police officer raped a woman at his home after meeting her through a dating website, a court has heard. Exeter Crown Court heard Stuart Mines, 49, had non-consensual intercourse with a ...
Inside the church, several of the medieval Kievan mosaics created by Greek masters survive and show a provincial Byzantine style. The construction of the church itself is a form of stone and brick masonry called opus mixtum, which means alternating rows of stone and flat brick, or plinthos, meaning crushed brick in lime mortar.