Kizhi, a small island in Onega Lake, is an open-air museum of traditional Russian architecture. Here you can see a number of unique wooden churches, built in the 18th–19th centuries, one of them built without the use of nails – only the decorative “scales” on the domes is nailed on.
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Published: 05 May 2011
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