Mary: I'm picturing a sprawling log cabin with onion domes as chimney pots! It sounds amazing. I'll be going to Russia for a week next month, to Vladimir and Moscow. Any words of wisdom? - Johnette > [log in to unmask] (BP - "Preservationists shouldn't > be neat freaks." -- Mary D) > > > I got back from Russia to find that my ephemeral deliberations had been > immortalized in the message header. Thanks guys. > > I was in Russia to help review a grant for the Church of the Transfiguration > and complex on Kizhi Island in northwest Russia. The church is a gigantic > 18th century log structure with more than a dozen onion domes that is truly a > world monument. It took 2 1/2 days to get there. Being on the island and > seeing the church was definitely worth it. > > Mary Dierickx