Architecture of the Byzantine world
08.03.202518:49
After the change of power in Syria, there was much news about the desecration of shrines and attacks on Christians by Islamists and Israel. However, there was still hope that the situation would stabilise and once peaceful coexistence would be restored.
Now, however, the situation has deteriorated many times over - due to the attempted Alawite uprising, all non-Muslims are being attacked indiscriminately, and there has been a real massacre in the coastal towns. I won't post photos and videos of these horrors here - all are easily found on the internet. Pray for our brothers and sisters in the east - for their safety and freedom from centuries of oppression!
Now, however, the situation has deteriorated many times over - due to the attempted Alawite uprising, all non-Muslims are being attacked indiscriminately, and there has been a real massacre in the coastal towns. I won't post photos and videos of these horrors here - all are easily found on the internet. Pray for our brothers and sisters in the east - for their safety and freedom from centuries of oppression!
10.02.202513:08
While Baroque and its details persisted in Austro-Hungary well into the XIX century, especially in the more conservative regions, including the Austrian-controlled parts of Serbia, some neoclassical elements have appeared relatively early - take, for example, this late-18th century portal of Saint George church in Tovariševo.
09.02.202505:56
A surviving fresco in the monastery of Barbu, Romania.
06.02.202518:42
A piece of the old, not so long ago Christian Constantinople - the mansion of the Armenian businessman Azaryan of the early XX century.
05.02.202509:05
An unexpected link between the Balkans and Russia - the house of the Cossack family of Zhuchenkovs in Starocherkassk.
Built in its current baroque form in the XVIII century (the history of the estate, however, goes back to the Middle Ages, so the exact age of the building is unknown), for Russia it is a rare and curious example of a fortress house.
Any resident of the Balkans, however, will immediately say that we are facing a cula - a tower-shaped fortified mansion built for defence against Turkish raids, even within the Ottoman Empire with its loosening stability. In our case, of course, the house defended against raids by the Ottoman allies, who were still overshadowing the life of Russia's southern frontiers.
Built in its current baroque form in the XVIII century (the history of the estate, however, goes back to the Middle Ages, so the exact age of the building is unknown), for Russia it is a rare and curious example of a fortress house.
Any resident of the Balkans, however, will immediately say that we are facing a cula - a tower-shaped fortified mansion built for defence against Turkish raids, even within the Ottoman Empire with its loosening stability. In our case, of course, the house defended against raids by the Ottoman allies, who were still overshadowing the life of Russia's southern frontiers.
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09.01.202520:22
A tombstone from the medieval mausoleum of an unknown Serbian noble near the Mileševac castle, nowadays preserved in the Mileševa monastery.
06.03.202517:05
The early XX century view of Serbian Požarevac.
10.02.202509:08
Intricate eclecticism in Sterlitamak - the building of the former zemstvo.
07.02.202519:17
A rather typical for many Greek churches of the XIX and the early XX centuries mix of Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Classical styles in the Saint Demetrius church of Kontopouli.
06.02.202513:09
Somebody saved an old pre-revolutionary door and adapted it for an icon case in the destroyed but not abandoned Church of the Intercession in Gubino.
04.02.202519:57
Main facade of the Romanesque catholicon in the Serbian monastery of Moraca.
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02.01.202520:35
Interior of the Saint Nicholas church in Dolovo, Serbia. Built in the very beginning of the XIX century, it is surprisingly classicist for the Austro-Hungarian province - however inside it still retains much of the Baroque spirit.
18.02.202513:04
Beautiful Livadia in Greece.
09.02.202513:08
The mysterious ruins of Cardo Maximus of ancient Apamea in Syria.
Built in the second century after the earthquake, the city's main street was huge, and adorned on both sides by a long colonnade, one of the largest in the Empire. Justinian carried out a reconstruction of the monument, giving it even more splendour.
Right behind the colonnade began the buildings, and the distance between the columns and their facades itself is like a whole street. This passage is captured in the photo.
Built in the second century after the earthquake, the city's main street was huge, and adorned on both sides by a long colonnade, one of the largest in the Empire. Justinian carried out a reconstruction of the monument, giving it even more splendour.
Right behind the colonnade began the buildings, and the distance between the columns and their facades itself is like a whole street. This passage is captured in the photo.
07.02.202517:57
In Pancevo, Serbia.
06.02.202509:01
The late XIX century library of the Faculty of Literature in the University of Bucharest.
04.02.202513:03
The heart of old Berat in Albania - the Byzantine citadel, in and around which most of the city's churches still stand.
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02.01.202514:14
An Ascension relief on medieval Nikortsminda temple in Georgia.
10.02.202517:01
An abandoned villa of Pecho Semov near Gabrovo. The owner was a famed philanthropist and industrialist, often being nicknamed "Rockefeller of Bulgaria"
09.02.202509:01
Today we remember the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Church of Russia - thousands of people known to us by name, and perhaps millions unknown - who suffered from the godless Soviet experiment. Then, already 9 centuries as Christian, Russia faced persecution, in its cruelty and scale comparable only to that experienced by Christians in ancient Rome - taking the main blow of the Communists, the consequences of which are still keenly felt in the country.
In honour of today's date, so mournful, and at the same time sanctified by the greatness of the steadfastness of the faithful, I propose to look at the physical embodiments of the rebirth from the ashes of the Russian Church - the most beautiful churches dedicated to the holy New Martyrs and Confessors - from the large-scale catholicon in the Sretensky Monastery, to the church at the infamous Butovo polygon, where only officially 321 people were canonised, while more than 20,000 were killed in total.
In honour of today's date, so mournful, and at the same time sanctified by the greatness of the steadfastness of the faithful, I propose to look at the physical embodiments of the rebirth from the ashes of the Russian Church - the most beautiful churches dedicated to the holy New Martyrs and Confessors - from the large-scale catholicon in the Sretensky Monastery, to the church at the infamous Butovo polygon, where only officially 321 people were canonised, while more than 20,000 were killed in total.
07.02.202509:02
The Korytovo estate near Pskov, Russian Empire, lost in the vicissitudes of the XX century.
05.02.202513:05
Middle-Byzantine ivory fragment, currently on display at Louvre, depicting, possibly, Saint Mark and his disciples.
25.01.202517:05
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10.12.202417:03
The gate leading to the ancient streets of Nesebar in Bulgaria, known in Byzantine times as Mesembria.
Both the gates and the temples of Nesebar, known primarily for its old town, lie in museified-conserved ruins, which in my opinion is an unacceptable luxury for, in fact, the only medieval town in the country, given that both in Europe and Russia ancient buildings have been actively brought back to pristine condition - albeit often with many assumptions.
Of course, many buildings in Europe have been preserved in their original state, especially churches, but this is also a good reason to do restoration here - while in the West the number and scale of the heritage allows for many different manipulations, in countries like Bulgaria every ancient church counts.
Both the gates and the temples of Nesebar, known primarily for its old town, lie in museified-conserved ruins, which in my opinion is an unacceptable luxury for, in fact, the only medieval town in the country, given that both in Europe and Russia ancient buildings have been actively brought back to pristine condition - albeit often with many assumptions.
Of course, many buildings in Europe have been preserved in their original state, especially churches, but this is also a good reason to do restoration here - while in the West the number and scale of the heritage allows for many different manipulations, in countries like Bulgaria every ancient church counts.
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