A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 241
country exhiliit a ]5ower of designnot surpassed by the log churches of Norway(see Scandinavia) or the chalets of Switzerland.That infiuenee 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… … Russia, Fig. 2: Chcrch ok the Intercession ofTHE Virgin at Pukrova; 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 wastiiat the cities of…
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