Russian traditional (wooden) architecture

[Karl]

Those wooden churches look quite nice.

[Dresden]

These buildings frighten me They remind me of the doomed Church in Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness". Sorry, just had to say that

Do you read Sutter Cain?

[Sarmata]

We got also our barns...I mean wooden churches:







They're from XIV-XVI century.

And suprise...we got even one church from Norway:





I hope that Varg doesn't see that.

[Bloodeagle]

Palms don't grow in Inverness either it must be a cordyline of some sort, I would imagine they could survive in Russia.


EDIT:
No it is a palm and that is not in Scotland it's
Point Reyes National Seashore CA

Are we picking on you Tristan?

This looks like a Yucca plant, not sure which variety, but a Yucca nonetheless.
Very common landscape plant on the West coast of the U.S.A.
I use to have one in my yard in Seattle, Washington.

[Bloodeagle]

Here is the full link.
It is on Tomales Bay. I am sure it must be a cordyline... Too weird- first I thought that it was somewhere in Southern Russia that some nut had build a strange looking dacha there but the hills already told me otherwise.

These settlements constituted the southernmost Russian colony in North America

[Hors]

Yes, how could I forget it... California is Russian!!!

[Bloodeagle]

Yes, how could I forget it... California is Russian!!!

Russian California was used as a supply post to feed the Russian American capitol in Sitka, Alaska. They sold the colony.

In 1839, the Russian-American Company signed an agreement with the Hudson Bay Company to supply Sitka with provisions from its settlements in present-day Washington and Oregon. Soon afterward, the Russian-American Company decided to abandon the Ross Colony. First, they tried to sell it to the Mexican government. When that failed, they approached Mariano Vallejo and others. In December 1841, they reached an agreement with John Sutter of Sutter's Fort in the Sacramento Valley. Within a few months, the Russians were gone. Sutter sent his trusted assistant, John Bidwell, to Fort Ross to gather up the arms, ammunition, hardware, and other valuables, including herds of cattle, sheep, and other animals, and transport them to Sutter's Fort in the Sacramento Valley. Thereafter, the buildings at Fort Ross that were not dismantled and removed by Sutter were used for a variety of purposes by successive owners. In 1873, the area was acquired by George W. Call, who established the 15,000 acre Call Ranch.

The Call family continued to hold the property until 1903, when the fort and about three acres of land were purchased by the California Historical Landmarks Committee. In March 1906, the site was turned over to the State of California for preservation and restoration as a state historic monument. Since then, more acreage has been acquired (a total of 3,277 acres as of 1992) to preserve the site of the old Russian establishment and some of its surrounding environment. Extensive restoration and reconstruction work has been carried out by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, so that today you can again see Fort Ross somewhat as it looked when the Russians were here.

[The Lawspeaker]

I have found some pictures of a wooden church in Suzdal:
The building itself is very simple and somehow very attractive.





I also found this picture of something that has little to do with architecture but all the more with art. A lacquered box from Suzdal





A thing that struck me where the carvings on a house in Ughlich.




A picture that I found on on wikipedia about the Nilov monestary on Stolobny Island. You probably wouldn't believe it but this picture was taken in 1910 ! Click here for more modern views


I guess that, frankly, I am a sucker for wooden buildings and wood carvings.

[The Lawspeaker]

Palms don't grow in Inverness either it must be a cordyline of some sort, I would imagine they could survive in Russia.


EDIT:
No it is a palm and that is not in Scotland it's
Point Reyes National Seashore CA

Are we picking on you Tristan?

And I was wrong. It is Inverness, California.

[The Lawspeaker]

And just because I like it so much:

This particular monastery "Gamina Jama" was build over the disused mineshaft where after the revolution and the murder of the Imperial Family the bodies of the Imperial Family where thrown in. According to Dutch wikipedia this monastery was build in commemoration of the Imperial Family (seen there as martyrs) and was only build recently (one of the latest churches completed as late as 2003).

I stumbled upon this by accident as I didn't even know that a monastery in their honor existed:










And because I forgot it the first time: some pictures of carvings in Ughlich