can you just quickly tell me if this is all because i can't see without my glasses . something. is it is the chair. of the. future because. there are two church. members to mention. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london. and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on

a project photograph wouldn't churchill's. i knew that you know to do a proper book you needed time you to create a book in a fortnight. you need a subject when you really believe that obviously i fell in love with the chances they are extraordinary objects they're beautiful obvious. her.

i'm going to read something here that richard shots liberated in the sixteenth century here didn't intend to come to russia he was actually looking for the northeast passage there was a big storm of the ended up in the white sea and this is what he he wrote about the churches he said they church is a built of timber and the towers of the churches for the most part are covered with shingle boards at the doors of the churches they used to be build some engines so foolish as we do.

we just arrived to put in a mass i can show you actually see who is relaxing for in the coach here in the foreground hey we've all had a really good there was there was wonderfully some it's full of. if you. got any ideas why should i do. such an. temper longing to.

be with you. fake a said that will just have a little walk around the church with cheshire for a name it was built they say in sixteen eighteen although this could be summed it can see the roof here is pretty rotten and it's another brick the timber has a an amazing texture through. this bicameral anything is a hasselblad and it's called output and it's got a rising from which means that you when you take credit growth it doesn't look as though the building's falling over. because you're not tipping the camera just lifting the lens.

you. know what i suppose this church might have been building before sixteen eighteen that was the year when the church was registered in the records of the sars archaeological commission and it was dated soley on the strength of a survey among local clergy. who thought it was the st nicholas the miracle worker was the patron saint of all white sea mariners and explorers they certainly needed his protection and indeed had it as they braved the perils of rough seas making their way from village to village the girl knows them to death haunts each time they head out to sea or reconcile it with the thought that they

may be unable to come by it or for that reason they have a totally different perception of faith compared to people living far from the shore buildings on the white sea coast are filled with a keen sense of life that's typical of people living in the north. has some more graffiti on the wall more lovers and it might this is a big space. we can see and and on the wall here you can see where there were projectors there's the host of the projections so this was obviously used as the club in the cinema during soviet times so i guess there would have been a big screen with the where the i kind of stuff is was and this is in a pretty bad state as well. we've been to the church when i get a giant find somebody in the village who will maybe tell us something about the

history of the church and hopefully find somebody who saw the film. in the church of the nativity. scene they did with the red heads go. something. that. they feel ready just to get out i live a good three. minute. yeah but. what do you mean. joel for good will of the good which you have thought for three. weeks i don't know what was going on. you're ok ok. you're. propaganda back then was focused against the church and everything it stood for communists and members of the young communist league were i'm the campaign this church here was

really the only suitable place for clubs people ganske here every weekend and a couple supposed down in one thousand nine hundred three. and the churches is a religious monument obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look at and. opens their eyes that shows. what can be achieved by using your imagination and you know hopefully the religious activity will return but it still needs to be and still needs to be saved since the breakup of the soviet union obviously there have been other more important things to do with your money like buy ferraris and expensive watches and things like that

but i think i'm hoping that people will wake up to the to the fact that these objects are precious and you need to. need this. thread to fake a say were five centuries few tries for facing a long time for a fair. fight. joe here is very very sheltered. thank you.

i have a brother who is mentally handicapped and my mother spent her whole life trying to raise money to to support people who were mentally handicapped you know what my mother would do that maybe i feel that i should be doing something to to support something that i think is worthwhile now i could say that my mother was an inspiration because i saw her you know devoting a life to the cause that she had i haven't done that i've devoted my life to you know myself and my family and and other things but you know it was having a heritage this is a little moment when it might be possible to make a tiny difference in a tiny one tiny world of good intentions. and

that. we're just having a little walk. in the village now you can see that the house. and everything there's just one or one family in the village at the moment and they're just here for the summer my sign of life some very beautiful. and. then. sure. but then you could sort of and here you can see st nicholas church. it was built in the eight hundred twenty s. today it serves as a reminder of the fate of many other russian wooden churches. back in the old days churches were form of spiritual support not only for the villages but also the

whole surrounding area people used to flock to them on sundays and major holidays. it's fair to say that now the villages are dying in much the same way as the churches. such as neighbors it's quite late. since one thousand it. stays seen this extraordinary village. on the way see. came.

this is the said trip and we've just. had lunch after seeing the church and i. kept in. this worried that it's getting too would be for us to move on and say we're sitting here lying on the rocks getting the sleep that we didn't get last night and to. that we will be able to continue. hey we will if you just say. this. getting rough. with. you out of.

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like it's about a metre deep. you will find here we see examples of early and late architecture standing side by side belfry serves as a connection between these two times it's all in harmony with the village. that raises the idea on the bus through a building a wooden church is like a writings poetry stick with what he know perfect work of poetry seems to involve much effort on the part of its alter the brought in fact each verse takes a good deal of effort and so does each one of the logs that go into a wooden church but good at what i wouldn't churches are said to have no nails in

them this is not a figure of speech it's simply the most convenient way of building a wooden church with the joints are very firm as a result of the fact that the logs weigh down on each other. you know. what will keep out of you. again is. for you to be. straight with sam if you can. construct it. given the way this is where the collective farm stored its grain on. my pull down soon after the revolution. young people in the country believed in neither god nor the devil of the time. he had other ideals. ropes would be fixed to

the day you got crowds of youngsters will pull it up to bring the domes down where your roof would then become a tub. but your church next door was used as a clubhouse throughout the years of soviet government you. see age. you can just. say. this is the view from the church the clubhouse was brought into existence as a place where villages could get culture of a specific sought in clubhouses professional coach or a boat nicky coach or workers were charged with planning activities in the remote

village areas including celebrations of the new soviet holidays dunces plays agitation of soviet ideals and atheism and importantly keeping watch over excess and failures of the co-ops. could be just to oversee a courtroom on the say how from a short cut to the bay which. bush wasn't very clear he didn't do rifts come to your way. to know that there's enough room to turn. ok as i hope maybe. you're going on this to the room to everyone else.

to see. him and you know you know you always sort of be able to do the. olmo. your mother. did the own. learn to. show you go you know move

oh my gosh. you. know three o'clock in the morning and we're looking for some food. we've been up. all night. the girls been singing beautiful songs so we've now come down to the beach before we go to sleep for a couple of hours. as we're on the the island of condo ostroff which was part of the i thought i'd read something on the bolshoi sort of x.p. the main island of this white sea archipelago there is a fortified monastery it was founded in four hundred twenty nine until the nineteenth century this was the only official state prison in russia and house many important religious and historical figures these magnificent built for the glory of

god witnessed monstrous events over hundreds of years archipelago over the network of camps and stretched across a vast territory. so i said life from this cluster of good for island set in what soldiering it's in right now a matter of. twenty cents a day without the recruits from the university went off to another church or the white soup. to. see the people of the chester is being restored. and when did the chance which is a. long time yet sometimes. yeah no one knows exactly. what. happened.

you. can read. it as you can see it's an absolutely wonderful church it's huge and and when i first came here it was in a terrible state and nobody seemed to be really interested in in restoring it or do any any work of exmoor. until we met alexei sixteen whose mother is from the village and he's very involved in trying to restore the village and raise raise funds to going inside you can see that they are getting things here and you know it is looking much cleaner much nicer it's being

tied it up but there is still a hell of a lot of work to do here in some ways all along a smoky always few. who i think it will miss you pretty young for the fishing it was this this misfortune. this is the. school. you there will be in the first eclipse of the species. and. myself to feed of that we've only just started when it will be finished is and i want to get this but i'm not doing it alone i couldn't have cut without help from the others. in fact i might have given up on it if this. if. it's. sympathy

so. say can you just. see if the series. is her last two years a good saying. faith will deal is death make a high needs not should we need to finish the job if only for the sake of those kids sitting on the benches you when you have called as a book or a maid if they see we're trying to do something to restore all this ever lost in treasure. but you're good with us kids on the basis. of goodies i'm only doing what i think

is right i'm not out to pursue any special goals just what i think is right. i'm sure some will say that i'm doing this without god's blessing. well if i think it's right i know that somehow things of all was well felt in the past month. just pound back. dominates the landscape in a very very beautiful and outfield rusher and i think it's going to. swing the camera around and. say. something opposite side of the bank. this is a serious thing you're actually going on its glory. crassness. i mean i'm happy for them to carry this but i see. which. rush is isis a. man

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