New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 72
A. Yu. Vinogradov.
The Unknown 10th Century Cross-in-Square Church in Khosta (Krasnodar Region)
The article features an unknown medieval church of the cross-in-square type in Khosta (Krasnodar region) for the first time in academic publications. The church ruins were discovered during the railway construction in 1915, and registered by A. P. Lebedyanskaya in 1917. The plan belongs to the type of inscribed complex cross churches. The church was built during the last stage of the “Abkhazian school (957–967)”. As in the Loo church, the faзades are decorated with blind arches. What is unique to the Khosta church is that the cross-shaped pillars are replaced with circular ones, imitating marble columns.
Keywords:
Byzantine architecture, architecture of Abkhazia, Sochi region, Trebizond, Asia Minor.
Vinogradov Andrey Yurievich,
Ph. D. (History), National Research University Higher School of Economics, associate professor, senior research fellow.
E-mail: auvinogradov@hse.ru
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