Усадебный храм в Новотроицком (Позднякове) Орловской губернии и его архитектурный контекст
The Manor church in Novotroitskoe (Pozdnyakovo) in the Orel province and its architectural context

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the little-studied monument of the Russian provincal church architecture: the church in the village of Novotroitskoe. The author focuses on the problem of architectural shaping and borrowing forms of popular iconographic samples. The Church in Novotroitskoe is placed in a wide architectural context of 18th-19th centuries. The first part of the article contains the analysis of the church and a free-standing bell tower. It also outlines the analogy of unusual belfry, clearly inspired by the work of G. Quarenghi. In its second part the article deals with the problem of influence of the Novotroitskoe church architectural appearance in the provincial church construction of the beginning of the 19th century. The architectural design, interpreting the forms of Novotroitskoe became widespread in Tambov & Ryazan regions. The existing of this project, first implemented in the cathedral of the city Ranenburg, and then time and again repeated is discussed in detail. In the third part an attempt to clarify the possible sources of the architectural design of the temple in Novotroitskoe and cathedral in Ranenburg is made. A vast range of edifices associated with the work of G. Quarenghi, N. A. Lvov and F. I. Demertsov, etc. in Saint-Petersburg and province (Moscow, Ryazan, Tver, Tambov, Poltava, Kyiv and Chernigov provinces) is arraigned on.

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