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An izba (Russian: изба́, IPA: ⓘ) is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling. Often a log house, it forms the living quarters of a conventional Russian farmstead. It is generally built close to the road and inside a yard, which also encloses a kitchen garden, hay shed, and barn within a simple woven stick fence. Traditional, old-style ...
Its design gives rise to speculation; it is likely that this style (never found in other Orthodox countries) symbolized the ambition of the nascent Russian state and the liberation of Russian art from Byzantine canons after the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The style of church was also known as “Tower Churches”. [39]
The Russian wooden architecture (in Russian ру́сское деревя́нное зо́дчество, russkoe derevyannoye zodchestvo) [Note 1] [1] is a traditional architectural movement in Russia, [2] [3] that has stable and pronounced structural, technical, architectural and artistic features determined by wood as the main material.
The latter arrangement is known as the "ship design", with the belfry rising above the porch serving as the prow. The Muscovite Baroque churches represent the tiered structure of traditional Russian log churches "in which a pyramidal silhouette ascends in a series of diminishing octahedrons" (W. C. Brumfield).
A brick flue (Russian: боров) in the attic, sometimes with a chamber for smoking food, is required to slow down the cooling of the stove. [3] Russian stove in an izba, photographed before 1917. The Russian stove is usually in the centre of the log hut . The builders of Russian stoves are referred to as pechniki, "stovemakers". Good ...
Interior of a modern Russian banya. The banya [1] (Russian: баня, IPA: ⓘ) is a traditional Russian steam bath that utilizes a wood stove. It is a significant part of Russian culture, [2] and is typically conducted in a small room or building designed for dry or wet heat sessions. The high heat and steam cause bathers to perspire.
The oldest statement of Russian Revival, 1826 Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam. The first extant example of Byzantine Revival in Russian architecture and the first example ever built stands in Potsdam, Germany, the five-domed Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church by Vasily Stasov (builder of neoclassical Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, father of critic Vladimir Stasov).
The personal tastes of the last emperor were mosaic: he promoted 17th-century Russian art in interior design and costume, yet displayed aversion to Russian Revival architecture. Nicholas or his Ministry of the Court did not demonstrate a lasting preference for any style; his last private commission, the Lower dacha in Peterhof , [ 22 ] was a ...