Wooden Churches – Travelling in the Russian North by Richard Davies Part 2

While communism, collectivism, worms, dry rot and casual looting failed to destroy the majestic wooden churches of Russia, it may be ordinary neglect that finally does them in. Dwindled now to several hundred remaining examples, these glories of vernacular architecture lie scattered amid the vastness of the world’s largest country. Just over a decade ago, Richard Davies, a British architectural photographer, struck out on a mission to record the fragile and poetic structures. Austerely beautiful and haunting, “Wooden Churches: Traveling in the Russian North” (White Sea Publishing; $132) is the result. Covering thousands of miles, Mr. Davies described how he and the writer Matilda Moreton tracked down the survivors from among the thousands of onion-domed structures built after Prince Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988.
See also: Wooden Churches Part1 Turchasovo, Arkhangel region, Church of the Transfiguration (1781) Podporozhye, Arkhangel region, Church of St Vladimir (1757) Zachachye, Arkhangel region, Church of St. Nicholas (17th - 18th C) Kimzha, Arkhangel region, Church of the Virgin Hodigitria (1763) Liavlia, Arkhangel region, Church of St Nicholas (1589) Izma, Arkhangel region, Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour (1679) Zachachye, Arkhangel region, Church of St. Nicholas (17th - 18th C) Shelokhovskaya, Arkhangel region, Church of the Archangel Michael (1715) Podporozhye, Arkhangel region, Church of St Vladimir (1757) Podporozhye, Arkhangel region, Church of St Vladimir (1757) Podporozhye, Arkhangel region, Church of St Vladimir (1757) Podporozhye, Arkhangel region, Church of St Vladimir (1757) Shelokhovskaya, Arkhangel region, Church of the Archangel Michael (1715) and Church of God's Purification (18thC) Yedoma, Arkhangel region, Bell tower of Church of St Nicholas (1700) Bukhalovo, Arkhangel region, Chapel of Saint Nicholas (19th C) Berezhnaya Dubrova, Arkhangel region, Church of St Nicholas (1678) Chukhcherma, Arkhangel region, Church of St Basil (17th C, rebuilt 1824) Bukhalovo, Arkhangel region, Chapel of Saint Nicholas (19th C) Chukhcherma, Arkhangel region, Church of St Basil (17th C, rebuilt 1824) Konevo, Arkhangel region, Chapel (18th C) Shelokhovskaya, Arkhangel region, Church of God's Purification (18thC) Tulgas, Arkhangel region, Church of St Blaise (18th C) Verkhovye, Arkhangel region, Chapel Rakuly, Arkhangel region, Church of the Resurrection (1766) Piyala, Arkhangel region, Church of the Ascension (1651) Piyala, Arkhangel region, Church of the Ascension (1651) and Bell Tower (1700) Ukhtoma Sholomya Varzuga, Murmansk region, Church of the Assumption (1674) Ukhtoma Varzuga, Murmansk region, Church of the Assumption (1674) Predtecha, Vologda region, Church of St John the Baptist (1776) Sholomya Predtecha, Vologda region, Church of St John the Baptist (1776) Kondoberezhnaya, Karelia region, Chapel of Samson (mid. 19thC) Sheleiki, Leningrad region, Church of Dmitri the Miracle Worker (1783) Turchasovo, Arkhangel region, Church of the Transfiguration (1781) and Bell Tower (1793) See also: Wooden Churches Part1 Richard Davies
Wooden Churches – Travelling in the Russian North by Richard Davies Part 2
   
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