There is such a structure not far from Vladimir: the Bogolyubsky Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin - a female Orthodox monastery in the village of Bogolyubovo, Suzdal District, Vladimir Region. And, behold, the archaeologists decided to dig under its walls, and there …
Scientists from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have found a Romanesque portal of a 12th century temple in Bogolyubovo (Vladimir Region). It was probably built by Italian architects invited by Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky.
A bit of official history. The Vladimir-Suzdal prince Andrei Yuryevich Bogolyubsky about 1158 founded a country residence here - the "city of stones" Bogolyubovo, in which he also erected a temple in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin.
Reconstruction of the castle of Andrey Bogolyubsky. It is somewhat reminiscent of Catholic churches.
The ensemble of the prince's residence included, in addition to temples, a two-story stone palace and a stone civorium; the castle is fenced with stone walls (see reconstruction above). “We do not know any other such significant complex of white-stone buildings in pre-Mongol Rus,” says S. V. Zagraevsky. Until the 1950s, the castle was considered lost, until N. N. Voronin in 1954 discovered the transition to the choir and the staircase tower, over which a hipped-roof bell tower was built in the 18th century. From the white-stone church of the Nativity of the Virgin, which collapsed in 1722, only the basement has survived.
How was it necessary to build for the building to collapse? And with the destruction of the walls to the ground!
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Of course, all this beauty rested under the cultural layer. The parishioners did not clean the territory, did not remove the garbage, and over the centuries it all accumulated and hid this artistic masonry or stone carving. But judging by this photo - this "cultural layer" immediately covered several meters and only above it - the destruction of the columns along the wall occurred. There is no smoothness in erosion and destruction. These layers can be soil from the remains of the structure during the destruction of the temple:
The found portal (the main entrance to the building) is part of the temple destroyed in 1722. Later, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Bogolyubovo was erected in its place, which has survived to this day.
And here they already write that the temple was destroyed. Historians would have decided up there in their versions …
But who or what so demolished the temple almost to the ground?
Bogolyubsky Monastery: Church of the Nativity of the Virgin inside; 07.05.2004.
Inside the same picture - layers of soil. Why didn’t they begin to dig them up, clean them up?
The columns were round and only when they were restored were primitively processed rectangular blocks (fragments) laid on their base.
The temple itself is built of blocks (in appearance - limestone). European style.
According to archaeologists, the prince asked the emperor Frederick Barbarossa to send him architects from Italy to build temples and his "castle", this is evidenced by the characteristic style of construction and carving with which the portal is decorated.
And again - these conclusions are based only on the coincidence of the style of the structure on the territory of Russia with the western palaces and temples. Only on this, there is no written evidence.
And the most ridiculous:
Despite the importance of the find, the portal will have to be filled up. At least, until the issue of the preservation of a valuable architectural monument is thought out, it cannot be opened for public viewing.
I answer as a specialist in building materials: with the existing level of protective agents (water repellents), facade paints, as well as the technologies for their use - all this can be protected for symbolic means and it will remain for many generations. The reason for the concealment can be guessed … they would have had to clear the entire territory of the temple, as in the Luzhetsky monastery in Mozhaisk.
Luzhetsky monastery.
Photos from 2004:
Images, faces are shot down.
An earlier, more holistic state.
Reconstruction.
And now let's remember the St. George Cathedral (Yuryev-Polsky) 1234:
Direct analogy of images on stone.
We continue to watch …
But in Bogolyubovo there is one more attraction: the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl.
The white-stone church is located on a picturesque meadow in the place where the Nerl River flows into the Klyazma.
The dates of the construction of the church vary in different sources. It is widely believed that the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl was built in 1165 by Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky in memory of his lost son during a campaign against the Bulgar kingdom.
Approaching:
Built from white stone blocks.
Here's what to consider.
Not everything was destroyed by time. Photos taken on 2004-07-05.
In 1992, the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, together with eight other monuments of ancient Russian white-stone architecture (the Assumption Cathedral, the Dmitrievsky Cathedral, the Suzdal Kremlin, etc.), located in the Vladimir region, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List under the general collective name “White-stone monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal.
Whose muzzles are these? Kabanov?
What kind of intimidation with evil faces? Just like in Indian temples!
Wall before painting.
Church during the flood of the river. Maybe this is what the landscape looked like during a more powerful cataclysm?
Author: sibved