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abandoned its residents still in the ecuadorian embassy and arrest julian assange easing tensions in the diplomatic standoff between the two nations like on just a day after the blog called solve and north american nations express their support of him. coming up r.t. joins a prominent dog attack talk a photo on his journey around the russian north that's next. can you just quickly tell me if this is all because i can't see without my glasses. something. is there is such a. political. future because. there are two churches churches. and then the mentioned. 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 to photograph wooden churches. i knew that you know to do a proper book you needed time you didn't create a book in a fortnight. you need a subject when you really believe in obviously i fell in love with the chances they are extraordinary openness that beautiful of lives.

her. i'm going to read something here that bridget johnson wrote it in the sixteenth century you 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 in the taas of the churches for the most part are covered with shingle boards at the doors of the churches they used to build some engines so foolish as we do. we just arrived to put in a mouth i can show you actually see who is relaxing for in the coach here in the foreground they were who had a really good there was there was wonderfully some its form of. if you.

got any ideas why should i do. such an. kemper along to. you will you. fake a said that will not just have a little walk around the church with fashion for a neighbor was built they say in sixteen eighteen way this could be summed it can see the roof here is pretty rotten and needs another brick the timber has a an amazing texture through.

this is the big camera anything in the hasselblad and it's called out and it's got a rising from which means that you when you take credit growth it doesn't look as a the buildings falling over. because you're not tipping the camera just lifting the lens. and you. know what it'll come up i suppose this church might have been build even 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 real saint 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 when 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 on the wall here you can see where there were project is the host of the project since this was obviously used as

a 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 go trying to 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 redheads go. something. that. they feel ready just because i live a good three. minute. yeah but i know that i. got to put in the ocean like me. job for good you know the good which dropped off for. my point was

you know. 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 behind the campaign yet 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. in 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 and opens their eyes that is.

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 up since the breakup of the soviet union obviously there have been other more important things to do with your money like by ferrari's 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. need this. right fake a say when for venturing feeling to try face to face facing a long time face first. face frame of the file a smile for the camera fast. food there's

a lot of waiting to do before we can be picked up the seashore here is very very sure other fish. thank you. i have a brother who's 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 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 the reserving at heritage this is

a little moment when it might be possible to make a tiny difference in a tiny. tiny world with intentions. we're just having a little walk. in the village now you can see that the house. and everything there's just one one family in the village at the moment and they're just here for the summer my sign of life i'm very beautiful. and. memories from. men.

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. it's quite late. since one.

stays seeing this extraordinary village very few people that. i'm going to see. this is the said trip and we've just. had lunch. seeing the church and. captain is worried that it's getting too ridiculous to move on and say we're sitting here lying on the rocks getting the sleep that we didn't get last night until. two pm that we will be able to continue.

well a we all will if you feel you can just say. it is. getting rougher and rougher stay with me here. and you out if they. let. me know ok let's face it just. a few things any day that we. question was that so much nothing taxpayers money men to say show me the pot of people at area managing you know political sastre just a world facing another and more sustained food prices higher prices population growth bad weather. well

good. science technology innovation all the least of melanin spun around russia we've got the future covered. destroy it here. here take this stick. remember no stones here looks 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 writings the poetry stick with what he know perfect work of poetry seems to involve much effort on the part of it's also 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 what of that 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 you. yearly if gainey is. very. strict with one sam if you can. construct it. if you have no way this is where the collective farm stored its grain on. 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 details crowds of youngsters will pull it up to bring the domes down where your roof would then become and up. but your church next door was used as a club house throughout the years of soviet government you. will.

see each. future interests and. 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 bought nicky coach or workers were charged with planning activities in the remote village areas including celebrations of the new soviet holidays dances plays agitation of saving at ideals and atheism and importantly keeping watch over excess in the failures of the call. could be just to over the course room of the say ha from the short cut to the bay to.

the bush was a very clear even a rift something a way. to know that there's enough room to turn. ok self-proclaimed. you're going to live to a room to everyone else. to see.

him and you know you know you are the way to sort of be able to do the. folo. you know mom was who. did the own. learn to. show you go you know move oh ah ah. three o'clock in the morning and we're looking for some food. we've been up. all night. because i've been singing beautiful songs we've now come down to the

beach before we go to sleep for a couple of. as were only the island of condo ostroff which was part of the gulag i thought i'd read something on the bolshoi sort of x.p. the main island of this white sea are prepared to go there is a fortified ministry 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 they do like archipelago the network of camps and stretched across a vast territory. so i said life on this move cluster of beautiful islands in what soldiering it's in right a matter of. three

cents a day without because the crew from the university went off to another church or the white suited. to the chance of seeing the people that were the church there is being restored. and when did the chapel disappear. along time again sometime. yeah no one knows exactly. what. happened. in the. future. thank you.

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 to any any wreckage or to hear. that 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 you know it's looking much cleaner a much nicer it's being tied it up but there is still a hell of a lot of work to do here somewhere all along it's like you know if you want. to do . this first you pretty young of the future in your books is this war is just says the. school.

year will be the first eclipse of the species. which purposed to feed and we've only just started when it will be finished is scarce but i'm not doing it alone i couldn't have cut without help from the others you wish for. in fact i might have given up on it if this. if this. if. super theory. states you just sign. this. it's serious serious differences in. her whose last few years a good saying. faith with deeds 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 this evillest 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 under that somehow things of all was well thought out in the past month . just pound that. dominates the landscape in

a very very beautiful and not filled rush and i think it's going to. swing the camera around and. say you. want something opposite side of the bank. this is if you use your actions on its glory. i mean i'm happy for them to carry this but i see. which flushes i feel. guilty i am. being.