Traditionally, we have with my girlfriend Lena Popkovoy
www.popkova.ru - met New Year in a new place - on TOTME, District center. Situated in the north-east in the Vologda region 225 kilometers from the regional center Vologdy.Totma small, quiet, cozy town. He stretches on the left bank of the River Sukhona between the Vologda and Grand Ustyug. Totmy long history is rich, interesting and, in his own way, is mysterious. The first settlers came to the region long before the city, but the date for education Totmy considered in 1137.
Totma (stands for Divine city) is located at 60 - parallel, as the famous northern capital of St. Petersburg and Oslo.
The city has a number of unique historical and architectural features, indicating its role in the destiny of Europe, Asia and even America.
There are salt springs, known since ancient times. It is no accident came here and the first in the world for guidance device rassolopodemnyh wells (Note Document is stored in the archives in Moscow).
Totemskaya church architecture is a special baroque style - "totemskoe Baroque", according to researchers, inspired by the great geographical discoveries. Temples are built on c-Means merchants seafarers, promyshlyavshih chernoburuyu fox in the Aleutian Islands area and Alyaski.Takie temples-built sailing on the "excess capital" totemeskie seaman by investing in its filial love for the motherland, for all his soul. So they thanked God for a happy swimming, totemskuyu returning to their native land. After all, only on the deck of this sailboat totemsky seaman could feel that he was a firm native land, after many years of deprivation among unbridled nature.
Totemskie temples ... What do they attract fans of Russian antiquity? Vvys aspiration, new, imposing and unique decor. Sophisticated designs on the facade of Churches make them unlike the other. These ornaments seemed so unusual for the XVIII century Russian architecture, which experts dubbed "their" word "foreign" cartouche. Kartusch - is typical of the baroque decoration in the form of a shield or polurazvernutogo scrolls for placing signatures, icons, emblems. Totemskie cartouche and distinct from (modeled, carved or draw). They are not internal, and external element temples and decorations are part masonry walls, typically serving one-third of bricks and the framed brick Multidisciplinary roller set. On the domestic fields cartridges - the stars and flowers, decay, crosses and sinks. On the other there is nothing but such stone lace made not on the stamp, and a live hand wizard, can be seen without end.
Cartridges, as a kind of business card Totmy, many years, not blended harmoniously in the Russian tradition is probably why totemskaya architecture has long been neglected by scientists and artists.
p.s. And yet, pozdravte me now 6 years old, as I Fotoforume - old!!
