Motifs of Russian Architecture

A spread from an old album of models, the kind printed for builders at the end of the nineteenth century. The captions are kept as they are, including the French line.

A church built without a single nail, taken apart into what it is made of: aspen scales of the domes, tier upon tier, the plan on a sheet. Dark wood, red and birch bark — the palette of the North, where everything is made by hand.

A plate from a pattern book: a wooden tower house, captions in two languages.