The love of Russian Church: describe the legend of wood construction

Over the years, I describe the architecture of a wood legend has long fascinated. But it was an island north of Russia augar lake. While yearning still blazing, this time with no hesitation, carries a flying mood, aboard the yacht from the Moscow River, along the VolgaHebeiOn the north, into Europe, the second largest freshwater lake -- Lake Olga. Base on the island there. It is a 1650 islands scattered in the lake Olga.

The yacht overlooking the Kizhi

But it so unique. Moreover, mesmerizing. The island is small, thin, long, but to be rich and handsome green. Like a piece of green is holding the village church, quietly floating in the water. When the island's landmark building wooden church, with ups and downs of the scattered "onion", across the lake sparkling people come into view, the ship would be its unique style was shocked, do not know how to praise. This is about 6 km long, 1.5 km wide Island, is an open-air Russian northern rural folk museum. On the island, grass, natural environment maintained the original ecology of the wild and vitality. The fields, farmers still have labor figure.

Different perspective to appreciate the magic of church buildings

The island's most attract sb.'s attention is the wooden building legend -- transfiguration church. It was built in 1714, 35 meters high, a total of 5 layers, in general, under the narrow width of the tower type. 22 different sizes of onion head top arranged in an orderly manner, the formation of mellow and full of rhythm and the ups and downs of the rhythm. The body of the church did not use a nail is fixedly connected, the use is straight grained pine wood close. This and the traditional Chinese wooden construction process have different approaches but equally satisfactory results and wonderful. The huge "onion" on the densely covered with tiny scales, is formed by molding wood inlaid carving.

"The onion" power

Under the blue sky and white clouds, lake, reed, boat, grassland and around which the church, farmhouse, mill, a windmill, the bathroom, the barn, drying rack, wooden fence, gain by contrast. Rustic buildings pastoral scenery all blend into one harmonious whole. With the island, to come together to form a beautiful Russian folk, swing in the water between the green. This scene, reminds me of the Tang Dynasty poet Zhu Fang's poem: "the ancient shore who home in, Nozumi Buwoon is anxious." The wild shore evokes historical nostalgia, let a person think of human agricultural age homes, nostalgia.

Base on the island area is not large, but no small reputation. As early as in 1990, because it has the world's most exquisite wooden Cathedral, the most unique, and was inscribed on the world heritage list. From fourteenth Century onwards, base on the island has become the only way which must be passed to the ancient city of Novgorod in Russia since the white sea, Kizhi rural churches have both administrative center at the time, has considerable influence on Lake Olga many island village, the island can be gathered together to form an alliance. The middle of the seventeenth Century, in the village around the church built log walls, and a guard against Sweden, Poland and Lithuania's military invasion of the watch tower.

Church of St.

At the beginning of the eighteenth Century, Russia through the war in the Baltic Sea coast, established his supremacy, Peter the great began to follow the aspiring to European civilization in the new era. Base on the island of the transfiguration cathedral was built in this period. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of local folk skilled craftsmen, a refraction is cutting-edge innovative spirit of the times, superb technology it extraordinary as if done by the spirits, the Russian northern wood construction achievements over the top.