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...On the way to the Cathedral of the NativityCathedral of the NativityArchbishops palace and bell-towerChurch of St. NicholasChurch oi St. Boris and St. GlebMonastery of St. DmitriChurch of St. NicholasChurch of St. Cosmas and St. DamianChurch of the Signmarket placeChurch of John the BaptistChurch of the Entry into JerusalemGostiny DvorChurch of the ResurrectionChurch oi the Emperor ConstantinoChurch of St. LazarusConvent of the Deposition of the RobeHoly GatesCathedral of the Deposition of the RobeTrinity CathedralMonastery of St. Alexanderbrick kilnChurch of Tanners SettlementChurch of Our Lady of TikhvinChurch of St. Peter and St. PaulConvent ot the IntercessionChurch of the ConceptionSpaso-Yevfimiev MonasteryCathedral oi the TransfigurationChurch of Our Lady of Smolensk17th century houseMonastery of St. BasilYuri Dolgorukys castleChurch oi St. Boris and St. Gleb
Nearby is a well-preserved specimen of seventeenth-century domestic architecture now No. 134 Lenin Street (Ulitsa Lenina). It was obviously the property of a wealthy citizen or member of the clergy and may have belonged to the Suzdal priest, Nikita Pusto-svyat, one of the Old Believers. An early nineteenth-century painting of Suzdal shows a similar house by the Cathedral of the Nativity in the kremlin. Although the house is built of brick everything about it shows the influence of traditional wooden architecture. It consists of two square frames of different heights each covered with a saddleback roof and resembles the church from Glo-tovo which we saw in the kremlin. The larger, eastern section has two storeys, the lower one used for storage and such like with a vaulted ceiling which has survived. This large section is made of brick and is adjoined by a, smaller section with three attractive windows on the front wall. The windows have since been widened and given new surrounds. Houses of this kind stood out sharply against the humble wooden dwellings of the ordinary townspeople. This rare specimen of domestic architecture helps us to understand why we find traces of the devices and forms characteristic of wooden buildings in church architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and why the churches of this period possess features which make them resemble ordinary dwellings, as we have mentioned on several occasions earlier. These tendencies reflect the tastes of the townspeople who were beginning to play an increasingly important role in society, which explains the gradual but clearly perceptible process of the secularisation of church architecture.
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