ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL MARKERS OF RUSSIAN IDENTITY IN 17TH–18TH-CENTURY SIBERIA: CHURCHES WITH BARREL-SHAPED DOMES

A comprehensive architectural, semiotic, and ethnographic analysis of 17th–18th-century Russian churches of Our Lady and Trinity in Siberia suggests that their architecture, specifically, the peculiar barrel-domes, symbolized Russian ethnic and religious dominance of the region. Междисциплинарное исс...

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Main Authors: A. Yu. Mainicheva, А. Ю. Майничева
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Russian
Published: IAET SB RAS 2016
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Online Access:https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/159
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Summary:A comprehensive architectural, semiotic, and ethnographic analysis of 17th–18th-century Russian churches of Our Lady and Trinity in Siberia suggests that their architecture, specifically, the peculiar barrel-domes, symbolized Russian ethnic and religious dominance of the region. Междисциплинарное исследование, основанное на подходах истории архитектуры, архитектурной теории, семиотики и этнографии, позволило впервые установить связь церквей, имеющих бочечное завершение, с их посвящением Богородице и Троице. Эти храмы стали одним из этноконфессиональных маркеров идентичности русских на вновь приобретенных сибирских землях, символом духовного освоения территории.