Thursday, September 29, 2011























I came across these incredible photographs at the Pravoslavie site. The captions are in Russian, so I can only make assumptions about the subject matter. They seem to be of rural Russian wooden churches from the 17th and 18th centuries. There are a number of "before and after" shots, as some of the churches are being restored. Unfortunately, it may be too late for some of the others. The photography is impressive and moving. All can be seen here.





3 comments:

123 said...

Similar work can be found here:

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/44825.htm
http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/

And related material to what you posted:

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/44814.htm
http://obsheedelo.ru/index.php?category=data&webpage=115

Milton T. Burton said...

Utterly gorgeous photos.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful.