Malye Karelie
The State Museum of Wooden Architecture
Malye Karely
Near to Arkhangelsk, at the village of Malye Karelie, the State Museum of Wooden Architecture is located between the hills of the Northern Dvina Region. More than 104 wooden buildings were brought here from the riverbanks of the northern rivers (Pinega, Mezen, Dvina and Onega). Technical and artistic methods of carpentry have been developed and perfected for centuries. Area of the museum about 78 hectares divided on several sectors. Each of them present definite type of north village with peculiarity of architecture, distinctive of designing. Here you can see recreated interior of peasant's log hut, exhibitions showed occupations, ways of life various social stratums of peasantry.
Landscape
The territory where museum situated is a very different on landscape. There are some plains, heights, fields, ravines, and bog low places, the river with steep and flat banks. Here you can see different kind of combination deciduous and coniferous trees as well as bushes. All of these let to locate each monument of the folk architecture at the most good for it nature environment.
Wooden architecture
In this museum of wooden architecture collected, various types of windmills, household constructions, like as barns, bathhouses, forges. Special museum exhibitions devoted to folk art of Arkhangelsk region, its history and modern condition. Numerous of viewers collected folklore holidays, which took place here.
Remarkable sights
Bell Tower
Of the Nikolsky Parish end of the 16th century.It had been carried from the village Kuliga – Drakovanovo Krasnoborsky district of the Arkhangelsk region
Trinity Chapel 1728
It was brought from the Voltevo village Pinezhskiy district of the Archangelsk region.
Georgiyevskaya (St.George’s) Church
It was brought from the Vershini village Verchnetoemskiy district of the Archangelsk region.
Joined House and Farm-yard
Joined House and Farm-yard of Rusanov. The end of 19th century. It was brought from the Kondratovskaya village Verchnetoemskiy district of the Archangelsk region.
Chapel of Makary of Unzha
Chapel of Makary of Unzha, the Zheltovodovsky Miracle – worker. The 18th century. It was brought from the Fedorovskaya village Plesetsk district of the Archangelsk region .
Joined House and Farm-yard
Joined House and Farm-yard of E.A. Shestakov.1861 It was brought from the Tsivozero village Verchnetoemskiy district of the Archangelsk region.
Historical places
Kargopol
The first mention of Kargopol in written sources dates back to 1380. In the Nikon Chronicle there is a mention of the fact that the Kargopol prince Gleb brought his squad under the banner of the great Moscow Prince Dmitry Donskoy and participated in the Kulikovo battle. The city of Kargopol itself (in the old acts of the Cargo Field) was mentioned in 1447, when Dmitry Yuryevich Shemyak found refuge here, fleeing from the persecution of Grand Duke Vasily the Dark. There is no doubt that Kargopol was founded much earlier than the end of the XIV century.
Antonievo - Siysky monastery.
The founder of the Siysky Monastery is Anthony with six associates in
1520 on the Mikhailovsky Peninsula, near a small river built a chapel, cells, and in 1525 received a princely decree recognizing the newly formed monastery with securing occupied land for it.
The rumor of a new abode soon spread to surrounding places. The number of brethren began
to increase, expand land ownership.
Lomonosovo village.
Lomonosovo village, where the great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born, got its name at 1911. In the time of Lomonosov there were two villages, placed near by each other. They were called Myshaninskaya and Denisovka. Because of this fact there is a confusion, which village was the motherland of the scientist. At the middle of XVIII century Dmitrievsky temple was built there, instead of burnt wooden church. The temple is standing still, inactive, it is an object of cultural heritage.