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Blog Byzantine and Post-Byzantine culture and meet arhitektura.Shte articles, books, photographs and original sport stores materials concerning all etc. "Postbyzantine" area of the Balkans sport stores ... castles, medieval churches, frescoes, architecture and art of the Balkan sport stores Peninsula ... Namely today countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania ... and why not from Russia Ukraine, Moldova and Italy ... Middle sport stores East ... but later :)
The complex of rock churches near. Ivanovo - Rousse is the most interesting focus of this kind of sacred objects from the Middle Ages survive to dni.Skalni churches and monasteries everywhere in the country, but the surviving murals Ivanovo churches have a truly unique heritage ... The Life of Patriarch Joachim I 1235-1246 says that in the beginning of the XIII century, he left the Holy Mountain and comes on the Danube, where his cave hewn into the rocks of Krasen / between Ruse and Ivanovo, but in the XIII century over current village existed a flourishing fortified city / ... "and he remained there with three of his students Diomid, Athanasius, and Theodosius. Carved into the rocks and a small church" Holy Transfiguration "and this place showed many more works of the first" .. . Later in the life talk that attracted his virtues Tsar Ivan Assen II, visited the small fraternity as ... "give him a lot of gold. The old man hired workers that gold, cut more caves and make a monastery after the great arhistratig Michael, which still exists today. And there gathered many monks as industrious bee taught constantly sport stores monastic rank, which is the path of salvation. And they raced one another in virtue and totaled up by the steps of a ladder "... These data are the starting point for research which, resting also on Art studies of the murals and accompanying notices and information of many inscriptions - graffiti around rocky areas give reason for linking the rocky Ivanovo with laurels "Archangel Michael" from the life of Patriarch Joachim I. Complex dedicated to the Archangel Michael, brings together six relatively independent sport stores complexes of rock premises , all located in the "letters" in the canyon that forms the river here. Rousse Lom. These are "Buried Church", "Krashtyalnyatya", "God's Gorge", "Ruined church," "Belbernitsata" and "church" .. . With the exception of the "Church", all found in the rocks on the right bank of the river, but obviously convenient to adapt natural caves have done, so there was no place, "Church" is built on the opposite bank :) So ... starting in overgrown patche we have the first sign of "Belbernitsata" Mission Impossible ... ... everything is securely covered with bushes and trees and stealth was absurd ... scarred and slightly disappointed / because there is an underlying information that the premises traces several mural compositions, but no luck ing to behold / we head towards the next objective, namely the first monastery of the complex - "Buried Church" ... And so, earliest dated paintings in the complex in Ivanovo rock churches here in this shack ... the Church with its size is more like a chapel, but can not help you impress monumental figures on the northern wall depicting the composition "Festival of the Archangels" or "Festival of arhistratiga Michael and all the bodiless powers" ... Her presence on such a scale show reasonably that "Buried Church" was dedicated to "Michael" ... most - greater interest, however, raises the scene next to the "council sport stores of the archangels" ... there are depicted three figures as the two left, apparently donor, and unfortunately almost destroyed and right again represents St. Michael sport stores the Archangel .... The fact that donor, dressed in regal robes, crown, blagollavyan of Christ fed to arhistratiga image building, church apparently indicates once again that the temple is named after the Archangel Michael .... Until the crown is fragmented inscription, which relies "... vsema blagar ..." inscription shows once again that the donor is ruler, as it is also known that in the first half of the XIII century, Tsar Ivan Assen began to titluva "king of all Bulgarians" ... These facts allow to accept the opinion of L.Mavrodinova sport stores that "Buried Church" is laid the foundations of the monastery "St. sport stores Archangel Michael" created sport stores by Joachim, by means of tsar Ivan Assen II, depicted on the donor's portrait, unfortunately irretrievably lost ... Church "St. Archangel Michael" has a size of approximately 7 meters in length and width alleged about 5 metra.Stenite are leveled, the ceiling was equal now demolished ... In his fall boulder gives the name "Buried sport stores Church" ... The image of the temple in a mock Donor composition shows that the temple in south direction was built existing and now rock platform .... the ceiling was frescoes, now where I have no idea ... maybe roll somewhere ma