Kizhah biography

Found inaccuracies in the description? Want to offer a photo or video to publish? The main thing is Kizhi - a real pearl and a business card of Karelia. This is an amazing and unique in its beauty and identity small island on Lake Onega. It has a historical-architectural and ethnographic museum-reserve "Kizhi", which includes the famous Kizhsky churchyard. This is one of the largest open -air museums in Russia, whose architectural ensemble is the UNESCO World Heritage Object.

In the year, Kizhi became the winner of the All-Russian contest “Seven Miracles of Russia”, and in the year the Kizhsky churchyard became one of the winners of the national project-competition “Russia”. History the first mention of the island of Kizhi are associated with the 10th century. It was at that time that the settlement of the island began by the Great Non-City Epassenians.

Mostly these were Finno-Ugers and Slavs.

In written chronicles, kizhi is first mentioned in the year as a large settlement of several villages located on several neighboring islands. Residents were engaged in fishing, agriculture, built churches in which rituals and services were held. There were 12 villages on the island of Kizhi at that time, over time, some of the villages were abandoned for various reasons.

According to the scribe book of the year, the wooden churches of the Kizhsky graveyard were first mentioned. It is not surprising that such an architectural complex arose in Zaonezhie. People lived here, the culture and spiritual features of which were reflected in the surrounding life, including in the bright original appearance of local temples. Those buildings that we can see today on the reserve are not genuine.

The old temples and numerous buildings, originally erected on the island, were partially lost even during the Time of Troubles, something dilapidated from ago. And in the 10th years, a fire occurred from the lightning strike, destroying the original ensemble of the Kizhsky graveyard and all the wooden buildings on the island. They began to build a churchyard again, by the year the church was erected in honor of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Transfiguration Church.

By the 20th century, thanks to numerous parishioners who donated significant funds to temples, several repairs were carried out, which allowed to preserve the complex of buildings. Moreover, Kizhi gained fame, artists and cultural figures, historians and researchers began to come here. The beauty of the place and its unique wooden buildings, made without a single nail, attracted people from all over the country.

Neither the revolution nor the Great Patriotic War reflected on buildings. In the year, Kizhsky Pogost was included in the state list of specially protected monuments. Everything managed to preserve to this day as it has been built. In the post -war years, reconstruction was held. From a year, old wooden buildings began to be taken to the island of Kizhi from other regions: village houses, mill, sheds, barns, baths, churches.

In the year, the Museum-Reserve was founded on the basis of the Kizhsky graveyard. In subsequent years, the exposition grew, and the glory of the Karelian miracle of light spread far beyond Russia. The state of Kizhi today is one of the most famous open -air museums, an architectural monument of Russian wooden architecture, the pride of Karelia. Every year it is visited by thousands of tourists from all over the world.

His business card is the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, collected from a tree without a single nail with many 23 cups bulbs, shiny like silver by the sun, the wood knocked out by the sun. The Preobrazhensky Temple is a summer, and the temple of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary located nearby is the winter. The masterpiece masterpieces are also considered a tank bell tower and a preserved fence.

And on the cemetery of the Kizhsky graveyard, the grave of the storytellers of the epics of Trofim Ryabinin is revered on the cemetery to this day. Impressions The Museum-Reserve is open to visiting year-round. Its architectural complex is not a legacy of only the natural settlement of the Kizhsky churchyard - it consists of many monuments of wooden architecture from all over the Russian North.

The sectors here collect monuments reproducing the culture and life of individual territories. Nearby reproduced Zaonezhsky villages of Vasilievo and a hole with their architecture and windmills. There are sectors dedicated to the culture of Fino -Ugric peoples - Karels and Vepses, Little Pudoling Pudozh and Kondopogi villages. In the modern collection of the reserve, not only wooden buildings, but also household items, samples of ancient icon painting, painting, the richest photo collection and the oldest archaeological finds.

In many places you can meet people in traditional outfits who are ready to show the life of their ancestors. The excursion service of the museum, together with partners, offers various programs of tours to Kizhi, including the transfer and additional excursions, the details of which can be clarified on the official website of the museum.