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Kokoshnik is a semicircular or keel-like exterior decorative element in the Old Russian architecture, a type of corbel zakomara (that is an arch-like semicircular top of the church wall). Unlike zakomara that continues the curvature of the vault behind and carries a part of the vault's weight, kokoshnik is pure decoration and does not carry any ...
The hospital was opened for patient treatment on 29 November 1957. On December 2, the hospital admitted its first patient. In September 1960, the Suburban Hospital was renamed the Central Clinical Hospital of the Fourth Main Department of the Ministry of Health of the Soviet Union. From 1961 to 1963, the main building was constructed.
The bochka roofs of the Transfiguration Church in Kizhi, holding onion domes above. 18th century.. A bochka roof or simply bochka (Russian: бочка, barrel) is a type of roof in traditional Russian church architecture that has the form of a half-cylinder with an elevated and pointed upper part, resembling a pointed kokoshnik.
The kokoshnik (Russian: коко́шник, IPA: [kɐˈkoʂnʲɪk]) is a traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan. The kokoshnik tradition has existed since the 10th century in the city of Veliky Novgorod. [1] It spread primarily in the northern regions of Russia and was very popular from 16th to 19th ...
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In 1831 John Frost established a medical hospital (St John's Hospital) in the building, the original mediaeval usage of that word signifying a guest-house. The Gate was acquired in the 1870s by the revived Order of St John and was gradually converted to serve as headquarters of both the Order and its subsidiary, the St John Ambulance Brigade.
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Xenia with her mother, 1878 Xenia (right), with her brother Michael Alexandrovich and cousins, Victoria and Louise, daughters of Edward VII. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna was born on 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 at the Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg. [1]