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Prof. Dr. S.V. Zagraevsky
Vasily
III’s palace and temple complex in Alexandrov Sloboda
and
its place in typological development of tsar’s manors of XVI c.
Published in Russian:
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What Alexandrov Sloboda at the beginning of the XVI century there was a
Palace-temple complex (country estate) Vasily III, the researchers knew already
in the mid-twentieth century. This is directly followed from the message
"Trinity chronicle, speaking about the completion of the Grand court in
the Settlement: "Summer 7021 October 3 Sergius in the monastery of the
founding Sergievo monastery gate kirpichnyi, and on the Sabbath.%Those years
December 1 ssna byst tsrkv Cover STEI btsy in the New village Oleksandrovskom.
Then f knz great and yard vshel (my italics - SZ). In g msca
December 15 ssna byst tsrkv kirpichnyi in Sergius monastery of
However, the true scale of this architecture to the%
- Pokrovsky, now Trinity Cathedral (in the future will be without
reservations call it Pokrovsky) Dating from 1513 year on the basis of the above
messages "Trinity chronicle;
Trinity, now protection, the Church will continue without reservations
call it the Trinity) is usually dated to the second construction period Sloboda
- stay Ivan IV (from 1565 to 1582 year; since the construction theoretically
could start a little earlier arrival of
- Crucifixion bell to 1710 - the
Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Pokrovsky (now Trinity)
Cathedral.
Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Trinity (now Pokrovskaya)
Church.
Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Assumption Church.
Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Crucifixion tower.
Accordingly, in the Grand estate of Vasily III in the Settlement
researchers of the mid-twentieth century included only the intercession
Cathedral and the
In this form of Dating sites Sloboda XVI century and the General idea of
the Palace-temple complex of Vasily III existed until investigations
Kavelmahera. In 1980-1990-ies of the scientist spent an unprecedented series of
excavations and soundings, which revealed a fundamental fact: Pokrovsky
Cathedral, Holy Trinity Church, assumption Church and the Church of
Metropolitan Alexis (in the future will for simplicity to call them first
temples of Alexandrov Sloboda) with their surrounding the complex of the Palace
chambers were built in the same building period.
In all these monuments Kavelmaher noted materials (brick and white
stone) similar conditions, homogeneous binding identical connecting iron,
machinery mixed masonry, United Italianate "graphical style of the Russian
court of architecture XVI century, with the use of the same, clearly unified,
units and components - shaped panels, sets of profiles of base, crowning rods
and capitals. Laying all the temples were originally open - did not dyed and
not bleached, was tinted white gesso just some made of brick elements of decor.
All speakers white stone elements were the same type of bonded brackets. All
churches (except for the pillars of the
This reasoning Kavelmahera was fairly well received by all researchers
as comprehensive4and inevitably the question arose about the
correction of earlier dates.
Kavelmaher, referring to the above text "Trinity chronicle and the
proximity of the stylistics of the first temple Alexander the Settlement to the
Italianate style Kremlin cathedrals of Ivan III and Vasily III5,
dated the Church of the protection, Trinity, assumption and Alexei,
Metropolitan of the first construction period Sloboda - years 1509-1513. The
second construction period - 1560-1570-s - Kavelmaher attributed only to the
restructuring of the
The proof-Dating Kavelmahera and criticism of existing nowadays formal
stylistic theories later built the first temple of Alexandrov Sloboda8
the focus of a special scientific works of the author of this study9here
only makes sense to briefly list the main arguments in favor of Dating of the
first temples Sloboda years 1509-1513.
First, it is necessary to clarify some of the intercession Cathedral -
stone or wood said in a statement cited "Trinity chronicle. We are talking
about four buildings (the fortified gates of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the
Church in the village Klementyev gate
Of course, just forget to make the necessary clarification to the
building material princely temple scribe was unlikely. Much more likely that
such clarification and was not required - just as it was not required
clarifications regarding, for example, construction of the assumption Cathedral
Fioravanti, the Archangel Cathedral of the New Aleviz or Trinity is%8Thus, we
must assume that the message "Trinity chronicle says about sanctification
in 1513 is hard Pokrovsky Cathedral.
Secondly, visual-tactile analysis of construction equipment showed in
the intercession Cathedral, Trinity, and churches of the assumption, the Church
of Metropolitan Alexei we see a soft, warm stonework, typical brick buildings
of the Moscow Kremlin of the turn of the XV and XVI centuries, and for the
Cathedral of St. Peter the Metropolitan of vysokopetrovsky monastery (1514-1517
years). Characteristic and mortar - with extremely high binding capacity, with
a very low content of lime sand and other impurities. Numerous white-stone
ornaments and Settlement, and the Kremlin were carved so that seems like a
stone "breathes". In the Cathedral of
Unlike the above-mentioned buildings, Crucifixion tower built of
"dry", "overheated" bricks, crumbling easily a solution
with a high admixture of sand. From the same brick in the same solution, built
the Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat. The white-stone decor
Crucifixion bell also carved, as at the Cathedral of the Intercession on the
Moat, - hard, geometric, "dry".
And in the belfry Crucifixion, and in the Cathedral of the Intercession
on the Moat, the builders used along with iron bonds of wood. In the Church of
the protection, Trinity, assumption and Metropolitan Alexei Alexandrov Sloboda
all connections made entirely of iron of high quality10.
Third, the bell
- masonry and mortar, and style, and performance of the decoration of
the
- the survey author of the second tier of the
- acquaintance with probing Astroscope and Kavelmahera made in places of
an adjunction of pylons Crucifixion bell to the facades of the Church of
Metropolitan Alexis, shows that at the moment of rigging the pylons of the
Church of Metropolitan Alexei had time to take root in the earth" about
half a metre. Theoretically, it could happen within a relatively short time (in
case C-Christ.
- at the polling Astroscope and Kavelmahera inside stair corner
Crucifixion bell shows that in places of an adjunction of the walls and pylons
Crucifixion bell on detected by probing the fragments of the white-stone
basement and obliviscence brick decor of the Church of Metropolitan Alexei
there are traces of weathering, which could not manage to appear in the last %D
From the foregoing it follows that between the construction of the
Fourth, after the construction of Trinity Church to its Western facade
was added a new section, consisting, as earlier, from the chamber, swinging and
basement (of the house was demolished in 168011). Kavelmaher gave
convincing arguments in favor of the fact that these additions were built much
later (not less than a few decades) after the
- unlike the two old sectional volumes, the new section was otherwise a
regular solution of the (square, covered in direction North-South torispherical
vault cellar, double, split longitudinal wall basement) and different
interpretation of the volume;
- seliga dismantled in 1680 vault chamber reached the Church of the
cornice and plunged into it;
- new section was founded on and the%B
- extension belonged to the lower construction culture12.
Therefore, there is a situation similar to the one described above in
connection with the restructuring of the Church of Metropolitan Alexei: we must
refer the construction of the Western chamber with a cellar and a basement to
the second construction period Sloboda, and the construction of the Trinity
Church - to the first construction period, i.e. to 1509-1513 years.
Thus, we have an independent documentary architectural and
archaeological data on the construction in 1509-1513 years Pokrovsky Cathedral,
the Church of the Trinity and the
Let's not forget that Kavelmaher regardless of all the above data shows
(and his point of view was adopted without exception, all researchers)that the
Church of the protection, Trinity, Metropolitan Alexei and assumption were
built in one construction period. This argument, in contrast to all the
previous ones, cannot be called self-sufficient, but when in the single-Dating
years 1509-1513 at least one of the first temples Sloboda (and even more than
three, as we saw above), he gives as unambiguous Dating this time and all other
temples.
All this gives us the right to believe that the Dating of the first
temples Sloboda years 1509-1513 proved redundant, very large by the standards
of the history of ancient architecture.
So, now we can say with all confidence that in
1513 Alexandrov Sloboda was generally completed the construction of the yard of
Vasily III, looking good and should strengthen%D13 Palace-temple
complex of four temples and adjoining to them large and small stone Palace
chambers with cellars and basements, as well as with many wooden houses and
transitions between them. The scale of this complex was second only to the
Moscow Grand Kremlin Palace14.
The assumption convent in Alexandrov. The plan.
The numbers on the
plan identifies:
1. Pokrovsky
Cathedral.
2. The bell tower.
3.
4.
5. Holy gate and
the gate
6. Hospice and
7. The cells.
The understanding of this important historical and architectural fact
gives us the opportunity to look at a number of fundamental issues of history
of architecture of the XVI ve%
We see that the first Church marquee was not the Church of the ascension
in Kolomenskoye (1529-1532 years), and
First, if you put the Trinity Church-monument of the beginning and the
second half of the XVI century, it is compared with the ascension (and even
more with the Cathedral of the intercession on the Moat) was "ugly and
regressive phenomenon"15. It looked very strange, as Ivan IV,
who gave a stone Church building special attention, who built such masterpieces
as the Cathedral of the intercession on the Moat, the Church of the beheading
of John the Baptist in Djakova, and many others, were unlikely to build in the
main residence, Alexandrovskaya Sloboda - "ugly and regressive"
Palace temple.
Secondly, more than strange look construction of the Church of the
ascension in Kolomenskoye is the perfect architectural masterpiece, huge
buildings of unprecedented proportions, with "flying" architectonics,
- without any previous experience stone tent construction both in Russia and in
Western Europe (Western European medieval Church architecture%
Third, noted in "the History of Russian art" under the
editorship of i.e. Grabar16 the absence in Kolomna temple
architectural details and design techniques, speaking about direct impacts of
wooden architecture, was contrary to the data set (including chronicle17),
showing the origin of the stone of ancient Russian architecture of the wooden
tent (in detail all of these data are shown in a special study of the author of
this18).
The Church of the ascension in Kolomenskoye.
Now, when we understand that about twenty years before the Church of the
ascension was built a small tent-roofed Church of the Trinity in the Alexander
Suburb with its traditional forms of the square, near the absurdities in the
construction of tent19 and simplified, "prjamoslojnoj"
architecture, associated with the wooden architecture (Kavelmaher, in particular,
noted the morning of the Sabbath.20, - in the theory of the
Genesis of stone tent-roofed architecture all falls into place.
In the early 2000-ies the author of this study was to name the architect
who built the Palace-temple complex of Vasily III in the Alexandrovskaya
Sloboda. Based on the same principles on which the SS pod'yapol'skii identified
for the Church of the ascension in Kolomenskoye authorship of the Italian
architect petroc minor21we showed that the architect of the first
temples Sloboda was to build the
Discussion of this subject is discussed in a special works of the author
of this study22here it makes sense to dwell only on the basic
moments:
in 1508, Aleviz Fryazin finished work on the
- in 1513 Alexandrov Sloboda was completed on the
in 1514, the great Prince commanded one of Aleviz erect in
Such a chain of bilateral dates could hardly be mere coincidence. Since
SS pod'yapol'skii made a conclusion about the authorship petroc minor in
relation to the Church of the ascension on the basis of temporary gap between
the probable arrival of the architect in Moscow in 1528 and the beginning of
construction of China-town in 153425 we apply this principle to the
construction of the Palace-temple complex in the Settlement. Based besides the
above, a number Italianate features all listed buildings, we are in these
special investigations concluded about the authorship of the Palace-temple
complex in the Settlement of one of the Italian architects, known under the
name of Aleviz.
The idea of the Grand Slobodsky ensemble was fully consistent with the
scope of any of Aleviz - simultaneous construction of very large for that time,
the complex of buildings, absolutely unique, not like one another, but United
"country" style (as opposed to "capital" style, realized in
the Grand Kremlin Palace, the%B
Having considered all the documentary evidence
relevant to the question which of the two architects, known under the name of
Aleviz, built temples of Alexandrov Sloboda, we are in these special
investigations on the basis of analysis of existing chronicle reports of Aleviz
came to the conclusion about the authorship of the New Aleviz26.
Note that we can not exclude the authorship (at least in the
co-authorship) of the New Aleviz and a number of buildings of the Grand Kremlin
Palace: refined "Prazska" thread, typical of the works of the
architect (Bakhchisaray Palace, the Cathedral of the Archangel, the first
temple of Alexandrov Sloboda) is present on the portals and the Annunciation Cathedral
(gallery which is%
But in order to stress the tremendous
importance of a princely estate construction in the Alexander CLoboda enough
and that it was carried out under the guidance of the architect, recently built
a masterpiece of old Russian architecture - the Cathedral of the Archangel27.
And yet, despite a number of
innovative architectural solutions, typologically "distant"
However, throughout the XVI century Kolomenskoe never
caught up with Alexander Sloboda - neither status nor the scale of the
Palace-temple complex. First, there was no stone Palace chambers, the necessary
terms and fire resistance, and maintain the state status in the eyes of foreign
ambassadors. Secondly, the very "open" type of estate in Ru is%
Ivan IV, of course, loved and settled
in the new house of his father - Kolomna. The proof is the erection in the
middle of the
The presence of Vasily III and Ivan IV stable couples
main estates near Moscow - "near" and "far" - makes us
think over the question whether something similar to Ivan III. Until recently,
no information on which we could rely on the construction of at least tentative
hypotheses, we did not have. But in the late 1990-ies Kavelmaher made the
following observation%
"Some scientists believe that the Moscow
Tsar was in
The Church Trifon Naprudnom.
The Church in Sinkova. Reconstruction
CENTURIES Kavelmahera.
Kavelmaher dated the Church Trifon Naprudnom the
middle of the XVI century30. Outdoor his excavations pillarless
odnoapsidny white stone Church in the village Sinkova Ramensky district of
Moscow region, which had similar dimensions and construction equipment, he was
dated about the same time31. Of course, in the middle of the century
these small churches "does not make. However, in recent years the author
of this study confirmed the loyalty of the "classic is32- the
end of the XV century. The main arguments in favor of our dates were the
following33:
- construction in a meaningful Tsarskoye Selo
small and modest temple for the middle of the XVI century is unlikely;
- the construction of the white-stone Church away
from the quarry also unlikely for the middle of the XVI century;
- all conditions at the turn of the XV and XVI
centuries, the groin vault, the innovations that have become a trendsetter
architectural fashion for many decades ahead, - meets only the Church Trifon
Naprudnom.
Based on the analysis of a Large Zion assumption
Cathedral in
And given the fact that Naprudnoe was the centre
of the Royal hunting grounds and was built first in ancient architecture
pillarless centric temple groin vault35the hypothesis that in this
village was home "near" farmstead of Ivan III, literally begs.
In this regard, we may assume that if Naprudnom
was home "near" p is%B
- since the beginning of XVI century stone
temples already constructed in the boyar estates near
- Naprudnom had no fortifications, Sinkovo had39.
This situation, as we showed above, is typical of "near" and
"far" estates near Moscow Vasily III and Ivan IV.
Sinkovo. A General outline of the
fortifications.
Accordingly, if Ivan III was "the main far
estate (as his successor at the Moscow Grand Prince table), then other
options besides Blue Is%B
Can we nominate and considerations
"near" and "far" the main country estates Boris Godunov -
both during his actual rule when Tsar Feodor (hereinafter, for simplicity's
sake we will call this the era of the Godunov-ruler), and during his reign (the
era Godunov-king).
Boris Fedorovich did not use the main
hereditary estates Rurikovich - the Kolomna and Alexandrovskaya Sloboda40
(perhaps he did not think it is ethical; perhaps they left him with a bad
memories of the times of Ivan the terrible, when every wrong move could cost
him his head). The Godunov-ruler were two main estates near Moscow, where he
built a stone Church, Khoroshevo (Trinity Church, 1590 years41) and
Bolshiye Vyazemy (the Church of the Transfiguration, now the Trinity, the late
1590s years42). XP%D
At the end of his reign in the status of boyar Godunov
began to build a huge tent-roofed
At the end of his reign Godunov began to build another
huge tent - roofed Church of the Transfiguration in the
Church of the Trinity in Khoroshevo.
The Church of the Transfiguration (now
Trinity) in greater Vyazemy.
Church of the Transfiguration in the
Borisov town. The
Let us note another important fact: Bolshiye Vyazemy
and Borisov had strengthening45, Khoroshevo and the
Extrapolating the data we have about "near"
and "far" main estates of Ivan III, Vasily III and Ivan IV on
Godunov-era ruler and Godunov-king, we can assume the following.
Home "near"
Left home "near" country estate of the
Godunov-king Khoroshevo? There are many techniques Boris Fyodorovich in this
estate of foreign ambassadors47but we believe that when Godunov-king
of the estate had only a temporary status "main near: Khoroshevsky temple
is too small and modest, and it is unlikely he could match the prestige of the
king, who built %48.
In this regard, we may assume that the "plein
air"
Of course, consideration of a country residence
of Ivan III and Boris Godunov - so far no more than a hypothesis, although it
may serve as a basis for further research in this direction. But as for couples
main estates of Vasily III and Ivan IV, - "middle" Kolomna and
"far" Alexandrov Sloboda, their architectural history in our time
already VI is
NOTES
1. THE PR RSL. F.
304. Ed. Chr.
2. Kavelmaher
CENTURIES Monuments of ancient Alexandrova Sloboda. Collection of articles.
3. Kavelmaher,
4. Pod'yapol'skii
S. ON the Dating sites Alexandrova Sloboda. In the book: Proceedings of the%2.
M., 2002 (hereinafter - pod'yapol'skii, 2002). C. 163, 165, 176, 180.
5. Kavelmaher,
6. Kavelmaher,
7.
8. Pod'yapol'skii,
9. Zagraevsky S.V.
TO a question about the Dating and authorship of the monuments of Alexandrov
Sloboda. In the book: Zubovsky reading. Sat. articles. Vol. 3. Strunino,
10. Kavelmaher,
11. Kavelmaher,
12. For more
information, see Kavelmaher,
13. Kavelmaher
CENTURIES sovereign yard in Alexandrova Sloboda (experience of reconstruction).
In the book: Jacob Ulfeldt. Trip to
14. Kavelmaher,
15. Kabelimagi%
16. Ilyin M.A.,
Maksimov P.N., Kostochkin CENTURIES the Stone architecture of the epoch of
blossoming of
17.
18. Zagraevsky,
19. Kavelmaher,
20. Kavelmaher,
21. S.
pod'yapol'skii. Architect Petroc Minor. In the book: Monuments of Russian
architecture and monumental art. Style, attribution, Dating. M., 1983
(hereinafter - pod'yapol'skii, 1983). C. 34-50.
22. Zagraevsky,
2005; Zagraevsky, 2008.
23. PSRL 6:247;
13:10.
24. PSRL 6:254.
25. Pod'yapol'skii,
26. Zagraevsky,
2005; Zagraevsky, 2008.
27. So, Kavelmaher noted that
the Pokrovsky Cathedral - monument of the
28. The date of
construction of the Church in Djakova, see: Kavelmaher CENTURIES the history of
the birthday of the Church built by Ivan the terrible in the village Djakova.
M., 1990; Batalov A.L. ON the Dating of the Church of the beheading of John the
Baptist in Djakova. In the book: Russian artistic culture of XV-XVII centuries.
The state historical and cultural Museum-preserve "the Moscow
Kremlin". Materials and research. Vol.
29. For more
information, see:
30. Zagraevsky SV
Architectural history of the Church Trifon Naprudnom and origin groin vault.
M., 2008. (Hereinafter - Zagraevsky, 2008). C. 5.
31. Ibid,
32.
33. For more
information, see: Zagraevsky, 2008.
34. Ibid., C. 28.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., C.
20-28.
37. Ibid., C. 21.
38. Ibid., C. 20,
32.
39. The observations
made by the author of this study in 2008, showed that the fortress in Sinkova
had the shape of an irregular oval length about
40. For more
information, see:
41. Batalov A.L.
Moscow architecture of the late XVI century. M.,
42. Ibid., C. 58.
43. Ibid., C. 60.
44. For more
information, see:
45. Information
about the balances in the ditch Vyazemy available on the Internet site http://www.odintsovo.info/goroda/?id=2834.
47. Batalov A.L.
Decree. back With. 55.
48. Batalov A.L.
the Sepulchre in the conception of the "Holy of Holies" of Boris
Godunov. In the book:
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