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It is widespread from the Kola Peninsula to the Central Zone, in the Urals and Siberia; [8] a large number of monuments are located in the Russian North. The structural basis of traditional Russian wooden architecture was a log house made of untrimmed wood. Wood carvings placed on structurally significant elements served as decoration.
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 ...
Zakomara (Russian: Закомара) is a semicircular or keeled completion of a wall (curtain wall) in the Old Russian architecture, [1] reproducing the adjacent to the inner cylindrical (convex, crossed) vault. False zakomar, which is not repeating the inner shapes of the vault, is called the kokoshnik.
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 centuries. It is still to this day an important feature of Russian dance ensembles and folk culture and inspired the Kokoshnik style of architecture.
As first assignment, in 1779 Catherine commissioned the architect of Bergamo the task of introducing the neoclassical style in the Peterhof Palace. The intervention was performed in the southwest of the Top Park , where he was made the English Park and in its interior the English Palace , [ 16 ] which became the model to which inspire in Russia ...
Vallin de la Mothe would go on to design the Small Hermitage (1764-1775) to house Catherine the Great's art collection, furthering the use of simplicity in neoclassicism with detached, austere columns and a muting of the vivid colours of the rest of St Petersburg's colours. [96] Virgin of Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg
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It is characterized by elaborate brick tracery and the vertical ascent of its 15 domes. Russian churches often have various recurrent elements in their architecture. The onion dome is for example a recurrent and important element in the architecture of Russian churches. Often Russian churches have also multi-colored filigree ornamental elements.