City Through Viewfinder: April 2016

Saturday 30 April 2016

Angel of Kuskovo

This angel crowns the Church of the Merciful Saviour (built in 1737—1739), the domestic church at Kuskovo, the estate of the Sheremetev family. The current sculpture, mounted on the top of the church cupola, is an aluminum replica of the original figure casted and installed in 1983.

Mavra Petrova, Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
The figure of an angel with the cross mounted on the top of the Church of the Merciful Saviour. Late 1730s, the replica of 1983.

New Building of the Trinity Church in Korolyov

The Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in Korolyov is a relatively young church: its parish was founded in 1999 and soon the construction of the “small” church building of wood started. It was finished in 2003.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2016. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Korolyov, Moscow Oblast.
A fragment of the gate and the bell tower of the new building of the church.

In 2005 the foundation of the new (“large”) church of bricks was laid. The works lasted rather long, about 10 years, and were completed in 2015 when Metropolitan Juvenaly carried out the Great Consecration of the church.

VDNKh. Pavilion No 26 Transport of the USSR

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. Pavilion No. 26 Transport of the USSR.
The pavilion was built in 1937, in 1954 it was reconstructed and assumed its the current external appearance.
The pavilion was more than once renamed: in 1937—1938 it was the pavilion Cereals, in 1938—1954 — Cotton, in 1954—1955 — Agriculture, in 1956—1957 — Geology, Petroleum, Chemistry, in 1958—1966 — Chemical Industry.

The Italian House

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. Kuskovo. The Italian House. 1754—1755.
A view from south.
The house was built by the Russian architect Yuri Kologrivov (1692(?) — 1754) in the style of a seenteenth-century Italian villa; features of the West-European Rococo and the early Classicism are embodied in the building.
The Italian House was used as "the palace for small receptions", as well it served as a kind of private museum, where Sheremetevs, the owners of Kuskovo, kept and showed their collection of atrworks.