DOI article:
Brumfield, William Craft: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century church architecture in Vologda Province
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.48915#0043
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William C. Brumfield
11. Cathedral of the Trinity, Trinity-Gleden Monastery. Interior, east view
11. Wielki Ustiug, sobór monasteru Troicko-Gledeńskiego. Ikonostas 1776-84
From the preceding historical survey it is apparent that Veliki Ustug had acąuired during
the late medieval period considerable wealth and strategie importance, and yet it had few
masonry churches, even in comparison with other major settlements of the north, where
logs remained the preferred building materiał.12 No masonry church has survived in Ustug
from before the middle of the 17th cen tury, and most of these few extant 17th-century
12 For an analysis of the physical developinent of Veliki Ustug, with special emphasis on the 16th through to the 18th centuries,
seeSHIUNIKOYSKAYA, Yeliki Ustug, op. cit. pp. 28-73
William C. Brumfield
11. Cathedral of the Trinity, Trinity-Gleden Monastery. Interior, east view
11. Wielki Ustiug, sobór monasteru Troicko-Gledeńskiego. Ikonostas 1776-84
From the preceding historical survey it is apparent that Veliki Ustug had acąuired during
the late medieval period considerable wealth and strategie importance, and yet it had few
masonry churches, even in comparison with other major settlements of the north, where
logs remained the preferred building materiał.12 No masonry church has survived in Ustug
from before the middle of the 17th cen tury, and most of these few extant 17th-century
12 For an analysis of the physical developinent of Veliki Ustug, with special emphasis on the 16th through to the 18th centuries,
seeSHIUNIKOYSKAYA, Yeliki Ustug, op. cit. pp. 28-73