ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE 16th CENTURY CHURCH IN THE ST. NICHOLAS IN UGRESHA MONASTERY (works in 2004)

Mikhail V. Frolov; Фролов М. В.; Leonid A. Belyaev; Беляев Л. А.; Georgy S. Evdokimov; Евдокимов Г. С.; Sergey Z. Chernov; Чернов С. З.

doi:10.31857/S0869606323010099

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE 16th CENTURY CHURCH IN THE ST. NICHOLAS IN UGRESHA MONASTERY (works in 2004)

Authors: Frolov M.V.¹, Belyaev L.A.¹, Evdokimov G.S.², Chernov S.Z.¹
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology RAS
2. Central Scientific and Restoration Design Workshops
Issue: No 1 (2023)
Pages: 135-150
Section: ARTICLES
URL: https://ruspoj.com/0869-6063/article/view/655679
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869606323010099
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/MBUMGB
ID: 655679

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Abstract

The article publishes materials from excavations of one of the stone churches lost in the 1930s–1940s in the monastery of St. Nicholas “in Ugresha” in the Moscow vicinity. In 2004, the remains of its basement masonry were cleared, which contained a large amount of spolia from an earlier church of the 15th – first half of the 16th century. A part of the monastery cemetery of the 14th–15th centuries was investigated, the site stratigraphy was established. The paper presents a complete plan and cross-sections of the structure, as well as all the limestone fragments found there. The article accompanies the research of A.L. Batalov, which focuses on the history of the church after written and visual sources, published in the same issue.

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Moscow state, history of Russian architecture, monastic archaeology.

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