Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North

The book represents a wide panoramic overview of the Russian Northern church architecture of the 14th-19th centuries.

Evgeny Khodakovsky is Head of the Department of Russian Art History at St Petersburg State University. He lectures on the history of the art and architecture of the Russian North, Russian mediaeval art, folk art, Norwegian wooden architecture and the history of restoration in Russia and Europe.

Introduction: Russian Wooden Church Architecture, 1. Archaeological Sources, 2. The Discovery and Study of Russian Wooden Architecture in the 19th-21st centuries, 3. The Technology of Wooden Construction in Rus', 4. Types of Wooden Church Architecture, 5. Regional Schools and Traditions in the Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North, 6. The Late Period in Russian Wooden Architecture