Город Владимир Путешествие по древним городам Владимирской земли Старый Владимир Old Russian Towns Памятники архитектуры Музеи Музеи, экспозиции

Город Суздаль История Суздаля Герб суздаля Архитектура Суздаля Музеи Суздаля

Досуг и развлечения Где поесть во Владимире Где поспать во Владимире Что можно посмотреть во Владимире Где поесть в Суздале Где поспать в Суздале Что можно посмотреть в Суздале

This applies to the bell-tower which belongs to two different periods. The earliest section is the nine-sided column of the original bell-tower or, to be more precise, the pillar-like church surmounted by a bell-tier of the type which we have already seen in the Convent of the Intercession. Evidently both these buildings be­long to the same period — the first decade of the six­teenth century. Above the octagonal socle stood the tiny church of the Birth of John the Baptist. It may be con­nected with the birth of Ivan IV in 1530 and could well have been built on funds provided by the Grand Prince. The walls of the church and bell-tier were disfigured by later repairs and the addition of new windows, but its original decoration seems to have been plain as it is today. The surfaces of the lower tier were embellished by the insertion of pointed kokoshniks. The intertwined kokoshniks on the northeast surface of the socle are par­ticularly interesting. The narrow, slit-like embrasures of the windows on the second tier which contained the church alternate with broad surrounds in the form of portals, like those which we saw in the gateway Church of the Annunciation. A third tier, possibly rebuilt, con­tained the bells. Above its broad flattened arches rose the tent-shaped roof. This building and the similar one in the Convent of the Intercession are of great interest to scholars as predecessors of the famous tent-shaped Church of the Ascension in the former village of Kolo-menskoye, now in the bounds of Moscow. In the six­teenth and seventeenth centuries another building was added to the bell-tower. Its upper tier consisted of an arcade with three arches on short faceted pillars. The first arch was built in 1599 and the remaining two in 1691. This type of building originated in early Pskov architecture and was later developed by Moscow and Rostov builders in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen­turies. The walls were decorated in the same free, asym­metrical style that we observed in the gateway church of the Convent of the Intercession: the pilaster strips and the horizontal bands of niches, kokoshniks, balusters and brickwork seem to have been placed entirely at random. In between the bell-tower and the arcade there is a clock tower with a tent-shaped spire. Interestingly enough it contains features similar to those of the clock-tower in the Convent of the Intercession - the same cir­cular branch piece evidently intended for the clock and the same rosette beside it. It is possible that the builders copied these details from the older building in the Con­vent of the Assumption. The tent-shaped spire of the clock-tower was balanced by two similar spires above the bell-tier. These spires corresponded to those on the gateway church producing the characteristic interplay of architectural forms that linked the separate buildings into a single whole.

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