We often see architectural monuments, ancient buildings, admire their style, beauty of lines, but do not notice things that can radically change the idea of the history of the building and its roots. Such structures, I think, include houses immersed along the windows of the first floors into the ground and soil.
The question repeatedly arose, if these are cultural strata, then why did they not clean the streets, why did it accumulate. If it was purposefully dumping soil on the road from the construction of neighboring buildings, then what kind of “culture of behavior” of neighbors is? Etc. But the version of the appearance of this soil as a result of some catastrophic processes, perhaps quite recently, at the beginning of the 19th century, does not go unnoticed.
The house of the steamer Lyubimov. Perm, st. Ekaterininskaya, 68. Windows are below the road level.
A two-storey stone mansion in the Art Nouveau style with elements of eclecticism designed by Alexander Bonaventurovich Turchevich for Elizaveta Ivanovna Lyubimova and her family was built on the site of the semi-stone house of the tradesman Feodosiy Aleksandrovich Tokarev.
Promotional video:
Mansion, built at the turn of the century between 1899 and 1902. For some reason, the architect did not dare to create a basement from the first floor, but left this first floor.
Old photo. A building covered with soil.
Donskoy Monastery, Moscow, littered with soil. How many floors are below the zero level is unknown. But the staircase goes to the 2nd floor. The entrance to the temple leading to the basement would look very strange. And the windows are also covered, as can be clearly seen in the pictures below.
For this reason, services are held on the second floor. Floor repair.
Red Square at the beginning of the 19th century
And later. Pay attention to the height of the columns and the height of the pedestal to the monument to Minin and Pozharsky
Omsk. Observations from pemolux:
Old Omsk. It can be seen that the windows are in the ground, and next to it are simple wooden houses with ordinary windows.
Lyubinsky Avenue (early 19th century, probably): you can see windows in the ground (the first building on the left between the first and second porch).
According to official data, this building was built in 1914-15.
Also 1916 … Why are there windows in the ground?
st. Tarskaya.
Also Tarskaya st. These recesses below are not former windows? Maybe they have some kind of purpose (absolutely prosaic)
And there are many such buildings …
Excavations in the Kazan Kremlin:
Excavations have been underway in the Ryazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve for many years. Notice how submerged the structure is at the top of the photo.
Moscow, st. Tverskaya 12. Here, of course, the immersion depth is small and this can be attributed to the cultural layers.
Luzhetsky monastery:
June 1993. Photo by O. A. Maznitsyn. There is no porch, apparently it was not provided.
An entrance (huge porch) to the second level has been built.
Immediately after removing the soil.
And now.
In 2005, in Vladimir, in the area of Gagarina street, 2, the above-mentioned group of Vladimir archaeologists discovered a burnt-out estate.
One of the few preserved (by all indications, ancient) wooden houses in Kiev.
In Ekaterinburg.
Yeniseysk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). Buildings covered with soil:
Continued: Part 2