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Church of the Epiphany of the Lord in Dore

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A large parish church in baroque style with a characteristic flat facade decor typical for the province is complemented by a slender bell tower in classical style. The volumetric composition of the church is symmetrical relative to the longitudinal axis. To the east, a narrower pentagonal altar adjoins the octagon on the square, crowned with a light drum of the lost dome, while to the west, an elongated refectory connects with a semicircular narthex to the bell tower, consisting of three diminishing squares supporting an octagonal drum under a lost spire. The cubic square of the church is divided into two tiers by a three-part entablature with a row of small blocks in the cornice. On the side facades of the lower tier, there are three windows with arched lintels, framed in decorative casings with wedge-shaped locks and ears with pendants, and under the windows, there are horizontal window niches. The second tier, serving as an attic, is finished with a profiled cornice and decorated with a steep triangular pediment with a round panel in the tympanum. The rounded corners of the square are adorned with two-tiered pilasters, and in the second tier, the rounded corner is decorated with a high arched panel. The edges of the octagon are emphasized by pilasters, merged with the plane of the lower profiling of the entablature with expanding two-tiered consoles in the cornice. Each edge has an arched window with a profiled sill and a semicircular archivolt resting on a profiled impost with an elongated console and a pendant. The octagonal drum of the dome is decorated with alternating rectangular windows and niches in narrow frames, a festooned belt at the sill, and a cornice with small blocks. In the facade decoration of the altar, lowered relative to the inter-tier division of the church, the same decorative elements are used, its edges are emphasized by pilasters, supported in a wide three-part cornice, and the windows with arched lintels are framed in casings similar to those of the square. The six windows of the refectory, equal in height to the lower tier of the square and united with it by a common entablature, and the windows on the rounded walls of the lowered narthex are similarly decorated. All tiers of the bell tower are pierced with slender arches, flanked by porticos of paired columns in the first tier, single columns in the second, and three-quarter columns in the third, supporting three-part entablatures. The porticos of the two lower tiers are topped with triangular pediments, while the portico of the third tier features an attic with an arched window-lucarn in a decorative casing with a pediment.

The walls of the narthex have retained their original treatment with narrow horizontal rustication. Of interest are the metal leaves of elegant lattice doors from the 19th century, which separated the main church, the refectory, and the side chapels of the original narthex. The church partially retains 19th-century wall paintings executed in a late-academic style. In the vault, figures of archangels are discernible, in the window reveals of the octagon, figures of saints, likely apostles. In the square above the windows of the first light, there were three large narrative compositions. On the side walls under the trompes are depicted the evangelists. During the 20th-century renovation, much of the painting in the square was painted over, and plaster frames with small painted images, mainly of cherubs, were attached to the walls. At that time, oil painting was done in the refectory, preserved on one of the supporting arches: a band of ornament characteristic of Art Nouveau, and a double-headed eagle with the monogram of Nicholas II and an eight-pointed cross beneath it.

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Церковь Богоявления Господня в Доре

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