Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Spas-Vjiezhi (Russia)

The church, made of pine logs, was built in 1713 on the site of a tent church, that burned down. According to the legend, it was built by masters - carpenter brothers Muliyev, who were inhumanly strong. The two of them would lift the log and roll it onto the walls of the building, they were cutting. To commemorate the construction, they carved their names in the shed itself on the last rent log. The presence of this record was also confirmed by the carpenter Vasilij Andrejevich Novozhilov, who repaired the church after the fire in 1896. The church belongs to the so-called "cellar" type - its base consists of a quadrangular roof, called in Russia kletsi (or klietsi), the building is covered with a gable roof. An important structural detail can be considered the construction of the entire building on tall oak piles (the church was built in the area of heavy spring floods). The spaces between the piles were not covered with any kind of covering, because the ground, which was always in the shade under the building, would dry better. During the renovations, that took place more than once, the church changed. In 1876, after the fire, the church was boarded up with hewn boards, the interior was plastered, and a new iconostasis was built. In 1899 and 1904 the wooden poles were replaced by brick poles. In 1915 the roof was covered with three layers of hewn boards. In 1956 the shrine was moved to Kostroma, where it was turned into a museum - a museum of wooden architecture was established in the protected Ipatjevo monastery. On September 4, 2002 the church burned down.

A simple, but well-designed and detailed model of a beautiful wooden building, which even novice modelers can easily glue together.