A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 236
country exhiliit a power of designnot surpassed by the log churches of Norway(see Scandinavia) or the chalets of Switzerland.That infiuence which was to change the char-acter of church architecture throughout theempire seems to have come into Russia notearlier than the twelfth century. This was… … RussIj\. Fig. 2; Chirch of the Intercession ofTHE Virgin at Pokrova ; see the GreekPlan, Fig. 1. at least in decoration, by a more purely Orientalspirit which is manifested in earlier Russianmanuscripts, jewellery, and other minor arts ofdecoration. The immediate result of this wasthat the cities…
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