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KUSSIAN AKCHITECTURE.
Paet II.
it has been so x’epaired and rebuilt that it is difficult to detect what
belongs to the original work.
In this respect the church of Novogorod has been more foi’tunate.
Owing to the early decline of the town it has not been much
modernised. The interior retains many of its primitive features.
Among other fui’niture is a pair of bi’onze doors of Italian work-
manship of the 12th centui’y closely resembling those of San Zenone
at Yerona. The part of the exterior that retains most of its early
features is the eastern end, represented in the Woodcut No. 375. It
retains the long reed-like shafts which the Ai’menians boirowed from
the Sassanians, and which penetrated even to this remote corner.
Whether the two lower circu'lar apses shown in the view are old is by
no means clear : but it is probable that they are at least built on
ancient foundations. The domes on the roof, and indeed all the upper
part of the building, belong to a more modei’n date than the sub-
structure.
The cathedral of Tchernigow, near Kief, founded 1024, retains
perhaps more of its original appearance extei’nally than any other
chixrch of its age. Like
almost all Russian churches
it is square in plan, with a
dome in the centre sur-
rounded by four smaller
cupolas placed diagonally
at the corners. To the
eastward are three apses,
and the nai’thex is flanked
by two l’ound towers, the
upper parts of which, with
the roofs, have been modern-
ised, but the whole of the
walls remain as oi’iginally
erected, especially the end
of the transept, which pre-
cisely resembles what we
find in Greek churches of
the pei’iod.
To the same age belong the convent of the Yolkof (1100) and of
Youi’ief at Novogorod, the church of the Ascension, and-several others
at Kief. AIl these are so modernised as, except in their plans, to
show but slight traces of their origin.
Another of the great buildings of the age was the cathedral of
Vladimir (1046). It is said to have been built, like the rest, by
Greek artists. The richness and beauty of this building have been
celebrated by early travellers, but it has been entirely passed over
3X6. Cathedral at Tcbernigcm\ (Froru Blasius,
‘Keise in Russland.’)
KUSSIAN AKCHITECTURE.
Paet II.
it has been so x’epaired and rebuilt that it is difficult to detect what
belongs to the original work.
In this respect the church of Novogorod has been more foi’tunate.
Owing to the early decline of the town it has not been much
modernised. The interior retains many of its primitive features.
Among other fui’niture is a pair of bi’onze doors of Italian work-
manship of the 12th centui’y closely resembling those of San Zenone
at Yerona. The part of the exterior that retains most of its early
features is the eastern end, represented in the Woodcut No. 375. It
retains the long reed-like shafts which the Ai’menians boirowed from
the Sassanians, and which penetrated even to this remote corner.
Whether the two lower circu'lar apses shown in the view are old is by
no means clear : but it is probable that they are at least built on
ancient foundations. The domes on the roof, and indeed all the upper
part of the building, belong to a more modei’n date than the sub-
structure.
The cathedral of Tchernigow, near Kief, founded 1024, retains
perhaps more of its original appearance extei’nally than any other
chixrch of its age. Like
almost all Russian churches
it is square in plan, with a
dome in the centre sur-
rounded by four smaller
cupolas placed diagonally
at the corners. To the
eastward are three apses,
and the nai’thex is flanked
by two l’ound towers, the
upper parts of which, with
the roofs, have been modern-
ised, but the whole of the
walls remain as oi’iginally
erected, especially the end
of the transept, which pre-
cisely resembles what we
find in Greek churches of
the pei’iod.
To the same age belong the convent of the Yolkof (1100) and of
Youi’ief at Novogorod, the church of the Ascension, and-several others
at Kief. AIl these are so modernised as, except in their plans, to
show but slight traces of their origin.
Another of the great buildings of the age was the cathedral of
Vladimir (1046). It is said to have been built, like the rest, by
Greek artists. The richness and beauty of this building have been
celebrated by early travellers, but it has been entirely passed over
3X6. Cathedral at Tcbernigcm\ (Froru Blasius,
‘Keise in Russland.’)