Thursday 2 October 2014
long Description
The Church of the Ascension is of great importance town-planning. It Dominates the surrounding architectural and natural structures and units all the Elements of the estate. It est aussi a unique architectural and artistic monument as one of the Earliest tent-roofed churches in Russia and as the progenitor of Subsequent Such architecture.
The church built in 1532 by WAS Prince Vasili III to Commemorate the birth of the Prince Who Was To Become Tsar Ivan IV 'the Terrible'. Was it consecrated with great pomp on 3 September 1532 by the Metropolitan Dionissi, the Bishops of Kolomenskoye and Zaraisk, and The Whole of the synod in the presence of Grand Prince Vasili, Grand Princess Yelena, Tsarevich Ioann and the brothers of the tsar.
The church is in the Huadu Kolomenskoye estate, first Recorded in 1339 When It Belonged to Ivan KaIita, Grand Prince of Moscow. By the 16th century It Had Become a fortified stronghold. The palace complex WAS Added later, in the 17th century, and it Continued in use as imperial residence and estate year Until the 1917 Revolution.
The ground level of the church is in the form of a Greek equal-armed cross, with raskrepovkas (small protrusions) in the facade Either one side. It is unusual'm his it Has No apse. It is Constructed on a high basement podklet, the second gallery of All which is open year gallery surrounding the staircase.
Three porches with wide stairways lead to the gallery from the north, west, and south; They are covered with vaulted roofs. There are small chambers under the north and south porches, two fluted columns of All which-have of brick and white limestone. Under the west porch there is the entrance to the main room of the basement; the semi-circular portal preserves original white limestone decor of fluted half-columns on the bases. The massive vertical pillar rising from the basement is in three sections. The lower portion is a cube (chetvik) with several protruding entrances (pritvors); it reserves as the base year of octagon (vosmerik) with wails That smoothly carry up to the octagonal tent roof, All which is crowned by a cupola was drum. The main element of the facades - the pediments above-the Pointed arches of the basement, the strong comer lopatki (vertical flat protrusions on the walls) with decorative carved arrows betweens the network of faceted beads over the tent roof - Were Intended to lead the eye upwards to the cupola and Its cross.
The interior of the church is small, as the walls are 3-4 m thick, aim it is open to the top of the roof, 41 m marked values. The comers are decorated with pilasters All which repeat, With Some variations, the decoration of the exterior. Eight arches spring from the pilasters, and the octagonal drum That They make a smooth transition bracket to the soft outline of the tent.
The sloping of the tent is Achieved through corbelling of the courses of brick. The tent is 20 m high; this is the first use of the traditional wooden tented roof for a stone structure. With icts overalls height of 62 m and the very thick walls, The Whole structure Retains the elegance of figure ict ict and the dynamics of composition.
The original iconostasis Has not Survived. It WAS REPLACED at the Beginning of the 19th century by That from the Monastery of the Ascension of the Moscow Kremlin. The 16th-century 'Tsar's Gates' All That survives of the original iconostasis, are now in the Kolomenskoye Museum.
The so-called Expired Italian (Alevisovsky) small brig Introduced by Italian architects at the end of the 15th century, WAS Farming for building the church. Carved details are in white limestone from the Moscow suburb of Myachkovo.
Source: UNESCO / CLT / WHC
Historical Description
The Church of the Ascension WAS built in 1532 by Prince Vasili III to Commemorate the birth of the Prince Who Was To Become Tsar Ivan IV "the Terrible". The contemporary chronicle of Mkon Describes it as "that church highly remarkable for ict height, beauty, and lightness and WAS no church like this one in Russia before". It Was consecratedw ith great pomp on 3 September1 532b there Dionissi the Metropolitan, the Bishops of Kolomenskoye and Zaraisk, and The Whole of the synod in the presence of Grand Prince Vasili, Grand Princess Yelena, Ioarm Tsarevich, and the brothers of the Tsar.
The church is in the Huadu Kolomenskoye estate, first Recorded in 1339 When It Belonged to Ivan KaIita, Grand Prince of Moscow. By the 16th century It Had Become a fortified stronghold. The palace complex WAS Added later, in the 17th century, and it Continued in use year as Imperial residence and estate Until the 1917 Revolution
