Mansion of Love
The house at Pushkin Street, 61, known as the "Mansion of Love" or "House of Love," was designed and built in 1910 by the Kuban architect of Cossack descent Ivan Rymarevich-Altmansky.
In the late 19th century, a young e…
Ovin in Vitoslavlitsy, Veliky Novgorod
The ovin is an agricultural building designed for drying sheaves before threshing. It typically consisted of a pit with a stove without a chimney and an upper tier for stacking sheaves. According to popular beliefs, the …
Chapel of Peter and Paul from the Village of Gar in Veliky Novgorod
The Peter and Paul Chapel was located not in the village itself, but about half a kilometer from it, beyond the southwestern outskirts, by the road. It was surrounded by tall fir trees, and a kilometer to the west flowed…
Museum of Wooden Architecture Vitoslavlitsy in Veliky Novgorod
The Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture "Vitoslavlitsy" is located just four kilometers from Veliky Novgorod, on the picturesque shore of Lake Myachino, near the Yuriev Monastery. The name of the museum is associated with…
Utenkov's House from Usty-Kirva in Vitoslavlitsy
The house of Fyodor Mikhailovich Utenkov was located in the village of Usty-Kirovskoye in the Pestovsky district, on the banks of the Kirva River, where it flows into the Mologa. The house was situated on the right side …
The Dobrovolsky House in Vitoslavlitsy, Veliky Novgorod
The house in the village of Votrasa, Petovsky district, was built by Yakov Mikhailovich and Praskovya Vasilyevna Dobrovolsky. It includes a double izba, consisting of winter and summer parts, as well as a shed with a cel…
Fire Shed in Vitoslavlitsy, Veliky Novgorod
The fire shed was a public building belonging to the peasant community. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such structures were usually located in the center of the village or on its outskirts. The shed, 7.6 mete…
Minin's Stable in Vitoslavlitsy, Veliky Novgorod
This wooden architectural monument is attributed to the 19th century. Just a hundred years ago, such stables were a common element of rural estates. In the Novgorod region, only two such buildings have survived to this d…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from the Village of Vysokiy Ostrov in Vitoslavlitsy
In the 17th century, the Nikonian reform prohibited the construction of tent churches; however, this ban did not extend to tent bell towers. As a result, a new type of religious buildings emerged, tiered churches, or shi…
The Assumption Church from Nikulino in Vitoslavlitsy, Veliky Novgorod
The Assumption Church in the village of Nikulino was built in 1599 on the site of an earlier structure that had burned down. It was a small cell-like construction consisting of three connected log cabins, with a gallery …
