Russia · Europe
Kizhi Pogost
Wooden domes built without a single nail.
CulturalInscribed 1990
Poster
The Story
On a long island in Lake Onega, two eighteenth-century wooden churches rise in twenty-two silver aspen domes — the high water mark of Russian carpentry, all joinery and prayer.
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