Description of the attraction
The famous chapel of Kirik and Ulita is located on the western shore of the Bolshoy Klimenetsky Island at the very end of the residential buildings of the village called Vorobyi. The village of Vorobyi itself is located on an open hillside that gradually descends to the lake. If you look from the lake, it may seem that it is the chapel that enlarges the small settlement. We can say with full confidence that the chapel of Kirik and Ulita is the dominant part of the architectural component of the entire small village, moreover, it is she who is one of the most modest buildings of the "Kizhi Necklace".
The chapel was built at the very beginning of the 18th century and has a cage type of construction. The horizontal compositional axis forms two rectangular log cabins, which are placed end-to-end without any kind of connection between the refectory and the chapel itself. The frame of the entrance hall and the refectory is 1, 12 meters wider than the frame of the chapel itself, which is why the southern wall of the refectory and the refectory forms a kind of ledge. The vertical axis of the composition is formed by the hipped eight-sided nine-pillar bell tower.
The chapel of Kirik and Ulita looks like a single-emerging porch without a roof and located along the perimeter of the entire southern wall. On the western side of the chapel there is a refectory with a vestibule. It is believed that they were brought here from another place. The frame of the vestibule and the refectory is slightly higher than the frame of the chapel itself. Each of the log cabins is covered with a gable independent. The compositional idea of the building is complemented by the bulbous domes located on the tent of the belfry, as well as on the frame of the chapel itself.
There are two windows on the side of the north and south façades. The western part of the facade is cut through by a window, which is located asymmetrically. The walls are cut in according to the principle of "cut-in", the octagon is made "in the paw", and the plank roofs of the nailless structure contain rare cut-in sills. The rafter tent. As for the pillars of the belfry, all of them, with the exception of the central one, are double. The bearing pillars are round in cross-section and without threads. The outer pillars are square in cross-section, decorated with decorative carvings. The octagon and the tent are made of red planks.
The oldest part of the chapel is the chapel, which has an unusually independent character. Some scholars and researchers believe that the chapel was originally a barn. If you look at the chapel of Kirik and Ulita from the west, you can see that it is the hipped-roof belfry that bears the image of the entire chapel, and the rest of the building is almost invisible behind the western facade.
Precisely on the north side, there are several mighty and lonely fir trees, which are closely adjacent to the structure. The outlines of the tent, as it were, continue the tops of the trees. Just as the spruce trees stretch out their furry paws to the south, so the chapel itself stretches its southern overhangs of the asymmetrically located roof, as well as the porch area - to the warmth and light of the sun.
It is this small ascetic structure of the Kirik and Ulita belfry that is a true example of how careful and sensitive the carpenters were to the peculiarities of the surrounding nature.
