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		<title>Restoration</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=360</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
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It was a shock to see Andrey Larin&#8217;s photograph of the Church of the Virgin Hodigitria (1763). It has been dismantled prior to restoration. This is a recognised technique, the old timbers are re-used where possible and the rotten ones replaced. Hopefully the skills and funds are there to bring this beautiful church back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helsinki exhibition</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=338</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 March &#8211; 30 May 2010 
Museum of Finnish Architecture  
Kasarmikatu 24,
00130 Helsinki, Finland  
http://www.mfa.fi
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		<title>David Sarkisyan 1947-2010</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=321</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first met David Sarkisyan in Moscow in 2007. I was there with Matilda Moreton who has travelled with me on many of  my forays to the Russian North in search of wooden churches. By 2007 we felt we had enough images to put on an exhibition. Matilda rang the museum and spoke to David. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter/Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=308</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#124;&#124;&#124; /_
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		<title>Jan Kaplicky 1937-2009</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=271</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Kaplicky had no reason to love Russia. In 1968 when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia he was forced to leave his homeland and become a refugee in London. I met him when he worked for Norman Foster and moonlighted as Future Systems. Jan had a very special idea of the world he wanted to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life and Fate</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bilibin]]></category>
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Vasily Grossman Life and Fate

 
 

&#8220;On his way back to the airfield, Viktorov turned off towards the edge of the forest.
 
The squadron had been in reserve for a month, replacing men and material.
 
The Northern countryside seemed very strange to Viktorov. The life of the forest and the young river that wound between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black George</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=193</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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On a recent visit to the British Museum I came across this beautiful icon.
It was found in 1959 in a small village in the district of Ilinsky on the Pinega river in Northern Russia by Maria Rozanova, wife of the prominent dissident author Andrei Sinyavsky. It was being used to shutter a barn window. When found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=174</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Rain

“It’s raining,
and still people say there’s no God!”
So Granny Varya,
an old woman from near us, would say.

Now the people who said there was no God
are lighting candles in churches,
ordering masses for the dead,
shunning those of other faiths.

Granny Varya lies in her grave,
and the rain pours on,
immense, abundant, relentless,
on and on,
aiming at no-one in particular.

Olga Sedakova [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gagarin</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Space]]></category>

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&#8220;Yuri Gagarin really has given a headache to believers! He flew right through the heavenly mansions and did not run into anyone: neither the Almighty, nor Archangel Gabriel nor the angels of heaven. It seems, then that the sky is empty!&#8221;

Izvestia &#8211; editorial  23rd May 1961 &#8211; cited in Russian Society and the Orthodox Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Eternal Peace, 13th &#8211; 21st May 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/logblog/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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On every trip I&#8217;ve made to Russia to photograph wooden churches I&#8217;ve kept one image in my minds eye &#8211; Levitan&#8217;s extraordinary painting  Above Eternal Peace. The blurb at the Tretyakov Gallery where it hangs describes it vigorously &#8211; &#8216;A boundless water expanse of nearly cosmic dimensions embracing an islet with a defunct chapel and [...]]]></description>
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