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