Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris

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Russian wooden architecture:
- Nativity of the Virgin in the village of limbers Borovichsky area until 1539.
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in Varzuga Murmansk, 1674.
- Church of Our Lady Mother of Tikhvin (Tikhvin Church), 1653.
- Assumption Church in Kondopoga, 1774.
- Church of the Resurrection, Suzdal, 1776.

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Russian wooden architecture:



- Wooden churches - the Transfiguration (1756) and Resurrection (1776), Suzdal.

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Russian wooden architecture:
- Church of St. George, the Karelian region, Yandoma, XVII century.
- Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica, Upper Uftyuga, Arkhangelsk Region, 1784.
- Presentation of the Lord Church of the Archangel Michael and the Red Lyage, Kargopol District of the Arkhangelsk Region, 1655.
- The church of Alexander Nevsky, Arkhangelsk.
- Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi.

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The architectural ensemble of Kizhi:

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Here's Hagia Sophia - the main Orthodox church in Veliky Novgorod, created in 1045-1050 years:

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But the architecture of Byzantium (for comparison):

- Church of Sts.
Sergius of Constantinople, ca.
527.

- Church of Sts.
Irene in Constantinople, 532 (rebuilt in 740).

- Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, 532-537.

- Church of Sts.
Fedor in Mystras, 2 nd floor.
III,.

- The Church of Hagia Sophia, Mistra, 1351-1365.

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But the first stone church in Russia (for comparison):

-Tithe Church (Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Kiev, 986-996 years.

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-And here is Hagia Sophia (reconstruction of the original species), Kiev, XI century.
(Also for comparison):

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-And here is Hagia Sophia (reconstruction of the original species), Kiev, XI century.
(Also for comparison):

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Recall also:

Bulgaria:

- Church of St George in Sofia, V in.

- The Church of Hagia Sophia in Sofia, VI century.

- Church of the Rila Monastery (117 km south of Sofia), the tenth century.


Macedonia:

- Church of Saint Clement, Ohrid, 1295.

- The Basilica of St. Sophia, Ohrid, Ser.
XI century.

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Naturally, the Russian architects, having no personal experience of stone temple construction, in the initial benefit of advice Byzantine architects (as well as Theophanes the Greek advised by Andrei Rublev in the Church's painting). This is especially true of technical issues - architectural and engineering part of the plan. As far as artistic and imaginative solutions, then Russian architects to quickly rise to its own wing. And give out one after the other samples for creative work, largely based on intuition: "the beauty and the measure say."

The Byzantine church as it hides under her "armor" latent in him the treasures of the spirit. Russian church becomes a kind of sculpture, his manner as if symbolizing the burning candle of faith. This fundamental difference in the architectural and artistic concepts.
Harmonious unity with the natural environment so characteristic of Russian church architecture, is just proving his identity, is one of the main achievements of Russian architects.