Church of St. John the Baptist in Tolchkovo

[Черномашенцев Владимир]

Being in town Tutaev five-seven years ago, I blurted out tour guide, that painting reminds me of the local church mural Yaroslavl churches. Joyful tour guide said that in fact the temple in Tutaev painted brigade masters of Yaroslavl province.

What am I doing?

Travel to Russia, eventually you begin to notice how different the architecture of churches in different areas. White-stone church of pre-Mongol era in Vladimir - Suzdal - Yurev-Polish and Kideksha .... Yaroslavl tent ... Novgorod ... Kostroma ...
Separately classicism, mass distribution in St.-Petersburg (and Rybinsk ).... Bright "vanguard" in Moscow and at the same St. Petersburg (St. Basil's Cathedral and on the blood ")...

I remember how we were taken to the provinces of France. In every village one can observe another temple in the style of "flaming Gothic", which will look from an architectural point of view, less effective than the Cathedral of Notre Dame. And after all these repetitions, as an exception and as a revelation, you see a temple in the Romanesque style that was somehow not destroyed by the French in their time.

And we have - the full diversity of architectural styles and holiday! And even a small temple of the Intercession on the Nerl not think the poor relation Vladimirsky temple, as Blessed does not seem small compared to xp. Christ the Savior or Isaac.