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Entry Title: Kizhi and Petrozavodsk
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Hello -- I'm writing an entry from somewhere other than St. Petersburg, it's been a while since I've done that. I decided to take a trip to Kizhi, an island on Lake Onega (the second largest lake in Europe), about 450km northeast of St. Petersburg, known for am impressive collection of wooden churches and houses made without the use of nails. I was originally planning to go with a friend, but the timing didn't work out, so I decided to just go on my own. Tuesday morning, I bought overnight train tickets to/from Petrozavodsk, a city on the shores of Lake Onega. From Petrozavodsk, you catch a 1.25 hour ferry ride to the actual island of Kizhi. I took the train later that night, again in a kupe compartment. There was only one other guy, probably in his 50s, in my compartment. Nice guy, we talked for a while about languages and Russia, but he snored really loudly at night, so I didn't get as much sleep as I would have hoped. Getting to Petrozavodsk at around 7am, I walked from the train station to the ferry terminal, probably about 3 kilometers away. I got tickets for the 9am ferry, which gave me a return ferry of 1:15pm, meaning we were given 3 hours on the island itself. Since the price of admission to the Kizhi Museum-Reserve for a foreigner was more than 5 times the price for a Russian (95 v. 500 rubles, or $3.50 v. $19), I decided to try my luck as a Russian. I almost inaudibly muttered One under my breath as I handed the cashier a 100 ruble bill and it worked out! The place itself is pretty amazing, especially the first complex of two churches (Transfiguration Church and Church of the Intercession) and a belltower. It's really amazing that these two churches were constructed without using a single nail. I'll post some pictures along with this entry (the only problem was the weather -- no sun all day). Some of the old wooden buildings were actually built on Kizhi (like the two churches mentioned above) while others were transported there from around the region. In one of the other smaller churches, a guy was giving a concert every once in a while playing the church bells. Again, this whole thing was somewhat similar to what I saw at Taltsy and also outside of Ulan-Ude. After walking around for a couple of hours, I still had some time left, so I left the southern part of the island where most of the tourists stay and walked up a bit to the middle, where there is a village called Yamka. It seemed to be a mix of an actual village where people live along with some other old wooden buildings transported from other places in the region. I saw a lady washing her dishes, etc. in the lake (which definitely is not nearly as clear as Baikal). Oh, there are also supposedly poisonous snakes on the island, which they warn you about after you buy your ticket, but luckily I didn't run into any. After taking the ferry back, I got some lunch and walked around for a bit. Petrozavodsk is OK, nothing too special, but there is a nice waterfront area along the lake. The weather wasn't great either, as it was drizzling for a while. So here I am in an internet cafe, my train doesn't leave until 11pm tonight and I get back to St. Pete before 8am tomorrow. I can't believe that I fly home in a week, the time has gone by so quickly!
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Photos from this trip:
1. Petrozavodsk Monument and Lake Onega
2. Kizhi Landscape
3. Further Away Church on Kizhi Island
4. The Fisherman
5. Two Main Churches in Kizhi
6. Two Churches, Belltower, and House in Kizhi
7. Transfiguration Church
8. Kizhi Buildings and Windmill
9. Church with Bell-Player
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In the untouched landscape of Karelia in Russia is the island of Kizhi on Lake Onega. In 1951 an open air museum of Old Russian wooden architecture was built here. Since then many visitors have travelled to the island by boat between May and September as the other months are freezing with the winter cold. The main attraction looks like something out of a fairy-tale. Two huge wooden churches, one for summer, one for winter. The Transfiguration Of Our Lord Church is the larger one, built for the summer. The Maria Protection Church is the smaller, with heating and well equipped for winter. The gem of this space is the Iconastasis preserved in all of its colourful splendour and with the typical motifs of the Russian Orthodox church. The national chapel of Archangel Michael was brought here in 1961 from the village of Lelikozero. It looks like a rectangular log cabin and above the entrance is a small belfry with a pyramid-shaped hut and, at the rear, a double-tiered roof. There are many timber buildings within the world famous ensemble of Kizhi, that contains the largest wooden churches in Russia.
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