Any trip for ornate window frames is, to some extent, a trip to the past. And like in any other trip, good luck means a lot.
But I could never expect such a good luck! (see second photo )
Faces in the windows
Only once (in Navashino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) I happened to take a photo of an owner of the house with her grandchildren looking out of the window.
Since then (almost five years by now) I never have taken any such picture for purpose. And I think this is because sometimes the circumstances are so favorable that they just cannot be better.
Dual ornate window frames from Chita
As I wrote, double windows are a genuine rarity. Even more rare are double windows made of two parts of arch type. And truly unique are those close to the entrance door.
So, if you will happen to find them in Chita or any other place, know, you are lucky:)))
Mysterious Russians windows
I know for sure, that Yakutia has houses with carved framed windows. But in November 2010, when I was there, the temperature was -40°C. I could not realize how could it be so bitterly cold in November, but locals said that autumn was abnormally warm for the area and were afraid of…frost to come!
This was how the houses looked like and no wonder that one could not have any idea of windows frames (if any).
Ornate carved window frames from Peterhof
I could not find any carved (or, at least, wooden) window frame in Saint-Petersburg, and this is understandable: from the very beginning, the city was built of stone.
Yet, some wooden houses have survived in Leningrad Oblast. Two of them, rather interesting, are in Peterhof, just opposite to the central entrance of its Upper Park.
And these are window frames at one of them
White Nalichniki in Novosibirsk
Compared to austere wooden house from my previous post, this one is a sample of imperial grandeur. White, elegant, vertically stretched, with volutes at the top, its window frames give us a haughty and distant look.
Surprising is that Novosibirsk, the city where I found this house, is one thousand and thirty years younger than Rostov Veliky, a place of the previous one! But the houses are almost of the same age – both were built at the turn of XIX – XX centuries
Ornate wooden window frames of Russia (Nalichniki). Part 51. Tambov.
Mixed feeling preyed over me when I was travelling from Voronezh to Tambov.
On the one hand, Tambov has always been known as a land of grain growers, “breadbasket of Russia”. And I never heard of any local trades like woodcarving etc. In addition, the town was mercilessly bombed during WWII. So, fire certainly caught whatever wooden had been there.
On the other hand, Voronezh, too, is not much famous with its carvers and carpenters. But I was lucky to find interesting window frames there, though it took a lot of my time.
In this sense, Tambov window frames turned out to be a far cry from my expectations.
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Wooden house from a fairy tale
I revealed this house at the outskirt of Rostov Veliky in Yaroslavl Oblast.
Yes, its window frames can hardly be admired, yet it holds your breath: so well-built it is!
Like an illustration to some old-time Northern fairy-tale!
Postcards “Wooden architecture from Omsk”
Today, Anatoly Petrov, the author of photos (aka Director of Eastern Express Publishing House) approved my publication of this set showing decorated windows of Tomsk! Many thanks!
Enjoy!
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Ornate wooden windows and other Russian symbols
I am about to post 51st mosaics of decorated windows. To open my cards, they will be from Tambov.
On the threshold of Tambov windows parade, let me show you one of the ordinary houses.
By the way, the picture is a concentrated presentation of things “true Russian”: decorated windows, a birch and even … rotten weather :)))