Jax Stumpes: Waterways of the Tsars: Yaroslavl 2 (10/13/2019)

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Waterways of the Tsars: Yaroslavl 2 (10/13/2019)

Sunday, October 13, 2019 (continued)
Our next stop in Yaroslavl was the Governor's House, part of the Yaroslavl Art Museum.

Дом губернатора/Governor's House (1823, by P Pankov)

A peek at the Governor's Garden

Our tour was led by the "daughter of the governor"

Ballroom of the Governor's House

святое семейство/Holy Family (1850, by Alexei Egorovich)

избиение детей Ниобы/Massacre of Niobe's Children
(1836, by Pyotr Shamshin)

Room with portraits of merchants and their wives

Governor's Office (KSS)

Our guide asked a riddle that went something like: What has no value when held by the owner, but it has value when the owner gives it away? I blurted out "Money," but hoped the guide did not hear me. But she had, so my prize was being able to sit in the governor's chair.

Tamiko in the governor's chair (KSS)

между учителями/Among Teachers; Christ in the Temple
(by Nikolai Lomtev)

березовая роща/Birch Grove (1896,
by Ivan Shishkin)

Back in the ballroom for a performance

Stately dances and then a quadrille with audience participation!

Lacquer boxes for sale at the Governor's House

The Governor's House was across the street from the Volga Promenade,
with another gazebo, "The Temple of Love"

Runners in uniform

For some reason, we took the motor coaches to the next stop a block away!

Храм Ильи Пророка/Church of Elijah the Prophet (1647-1650) was
built at the expense of two local citizens who were fur traders

Main portal

Fence post with painted glazed tiles (KSS)

Glazed tile of the Russian double-headed eagle (KSS)

The entire interior is covered with frescoes

The frescoes were painted by a team of 15 people headed by Guriy Nikitin and Sila Savin. They depict not only the life of Elijah the Prophet, but also show domestic life in 17C Russia with scenes from everyday life. Earlier such scenes would not have been permitted.

In the lower right corner, Naaman, an army commander, is cured
of leprosy after following the instructions of Elijah

Under the triangular pink pediment is a vodka shop?
(also peasants working the harvest on lower R)

Carved canopy (1660) of one of only two seats
in any Russian Orthodox church, one for the tsar
and one for the patriarch

Iconostasis (1696, in Russian Baroque style)

This iconostasis even turned along the side wall!
(note the "lacy" carved wood framing)

Even the gallery surrounding the nave is filled
with frescoes; here the pediment shows
the Resurrection of Christ

More of the painted glazed tile using four colors

Detail from Judgment Day, with St Peter opening the golden gate to Heaven

And then there is Hell

In the circle are four symbols of fallen pagan empires,
perhaps Egypt, Greece, Babylonia, and Persia?

The winter church is smaller to be more easily heated

A heater for the winter church

Across the square from the Church of St Elijah is the
former Soviet Executive Committee Building, now
the government building of the Yaroslavl region

Two kids on a scooter (KSS)

Памятник жертвам белогвардейского мятежа/Monument to the
Victims of the White Guard Mutiny (1958, by K Kozlova and M Yegorenkov)
is erected over the common grave of soldiers who died in 1918

We returned to the motor coach for the drive back to the ship. However, the driver of the bus went around a square one full circuit so that everyone could see:

Знаменская башня/Znamenskaya Tower (1658-1659)
was once part of the fortifications around Yaroslavl

Драматический Театр Волкова/Volkova Drama Theater (1911)
is named for the founder of the first professional theater in Russia,
Fyodor Volkov, started in 1750 in a leather store