Somehow everyone had the opinion that construction in Russia has always been made of wood. They cite as an example the preserved wooden houses in openwork decoration, standing in the Russian provinces.
Paintings by artists of the 19th and 20th centuries display beautiful wooden architecture. Yes, everyone agrees - Russia has always been made of wood. Is this so? Whom to believe?
Stone architecture of Russia
At one time, probably, the northern lands of Russia got very hard, in contrast to the western edge. People had to build everything again, putting log cabins on solid foundations of white stone.
Nizhny Novgorod. Stone tower.
Archaeologists, digging deeper than 6-10 meters, discover the foundations of houses made of white stone. Many old, preserved houses, palaces were built of stone and brick (plinths) - these buildings date back to the 11-12 centuries.
Vladimir. Dmitrievsky Cathedral. 12th century.
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All the most ancient buildings on the territory of Russia were made of white stone. Those that have survived to this day stand and amaze the imagination with their solidity, beauty and quality. An example of such a construction is the white-stone cathedral in Vladimir.
Where did the expression come from - wooden architecture
And, what about Russian wooden towers? Yes, there was a time in the history of Russia.
* Wooden lace * of Russian northern towers.
Having lost the previous technologies of stone construction, they began to build wooden houses. There are a huge number of them in the northern cities of the country. Where houses have been massively damaged by global destruction.
The openwork decoration of the house platbands and the stonework under the wooden beauty have been firmly welded together over time.
Now they put beautiful wooden towers on the perfectly preserved stone foundations of destroyed buildings, or even on the strong foundations of the stone floors of houses drowned in the ground.
They gave the wooden architecture a special Russian flavor of the former stone towers. This is where the myth of wooden Russia originated.
Borovsk. An old wooden tower on a more ancient stone house.
Such interconnected construction in many cities - these historical testimonies stand, in the form of wooden houses, which are built on top of solid stone foundations.
Here's a paradox. We laid out the foundation with perfect masonry of white stone, and went to cut the forest to raise the house.
Gradually, they began to instill the idea of the people that this was and always was. This is not true! Everyone has heard the expression: Moscow is white stone. Why would this be so? Yes, because Moscow was all built of white stone.
All the ancient cities in Russia: Yaroslavl, Uglich, Vladimir, Kostroma, and almost all the cities of the Moscow principality were built of stone and plinths (red bricks of various shapes).
So that people do not ask unnecessary questions: where did the stone come from, or maybe about ancient construction technologies, historians have come up with a myth about wooden Rus.
