ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

Sector «Russians of Zaonezhye»

The peasants who lived on the eastern shore of Lake Onega called the land on the opposite shore Zaonezhye (‘behind Onega Lake’).
Present Zaonezhye includes northwest part of Lake Onega – the Zaonezhye Peninsular and numerous islands of the Kizhi Archipelago.
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries the area became inhabited by a local group of the Russians – Zaonezhana – with specific features of material and spiritual culture.
The main exhibition sector of the Kizhi Museum is devoted to the traditional culture of the Russians of Zaonezhye.
In the southernmost end of Kizhi Island there are two architectural pieces moved from the western shore of Lake Onega.
The place of their original location (called ’Prionezhye’) is marked with cultural interactions of the Russians and the Karelian-Lyudiks.

List of monuments:

• The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour
• The Church of the Intercession
• The Bell Tower of the Kizhi Pogost
• The Fence of the Kizhi Pogost
• The granary from the village of Vorobyi
• The granary from the village of Vegoruksa
• The granary of Meshkov from the village of Yuzhny Dvor (Oshevnev’s farmstead)
• The granary of Soodyin from the village of Lipovitsy (Oshevnev’s farmstead)
• The bathhouse from the village of Mizhostrov (Oshevnev’s farmstead)
• The bathhouse from the village of Ust-Yandoma (Elizarov’s farmstead)
• The house of peasant Elizarov from the village of Seredka
• The house of peasant Oshevnev from the village of Oshevnevo
• The house of peasant Sergeev from the village of Logmoruchey
• The house of peasant Tschepin from the village of Tschepino
• The smithy from the village of Suisar
• The windmill from the village of Volkostrov
• The watermill from the village of Berezovaya Selga
• The threshing barn from the village of Berezovaya Selga
• The Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus
• The Archangel Michael Chapel