On the coast of the White Sea, you can see a lot of monuments of folk art, but the special place is given to the posts gravestone chapel, which in the north is called - "stuffed." These extraordinary works of folk art were widespread until the late 19th century on the northern churchyard. Today the chapel to see such a rarity - they virtually disappeared, the researchers found some of the chapel did not give a complete picture of the artistic features of these small structures. Scientists are particularly interested in studying the found near the village of Old Believers graveyard Shuertskoe uniqueness is preserved rare works of folk art carving and woodwork Teskey.

The Novgorod chronicles ages 15-16 have records of a large number of crosses, chapels that stood in the streets, bridges and squares of Veliky Novgorod. Examples of the art of wood carving art were "Wonderful Cross" (16 in.) From the Volkhov bridge and "Worship cross" (14) at the Sofia side. Morozov - Northern Territory researcher reports that "in 1594 the Dutch indicated that seen on Medyn BLOAT Mezensky Arctic coast," a lot of crosses ", one of which is decorated with amazing art was Russian literature."

In the second half of the 19th century. known historian of Russian architecture VI Dal interested in seeing chiseled column-chapel. In 1875 the magazine "Architect" it was published figure carved column, found them Vetluga county Kostroma province. IN AND. Dahl believed that such bars is attributed to the ancient period of the history of our culture with you. NN NN Sobolev also gives several options like bars, he noted their important role in the development of Russian folk woodcarving. However, these researchers were not enough material to fully explore all the richness of ornamental decorations and architectural forms in these works of folk art.

Among the columns, chapels is extremely rare to see the same, they are surprised by a variety of architectural forms and ornamental carving. The most frequently encountered poster designs on this - beads, rope, towns, grooves, mushroom-shaped and other motifs. Carved pillars cabbage rolls are of two types: flat, with a carved circular loop and treated with four sides. Round columns appeared before the plane, they were placed in the churchyard until the mid 19th century.

Just round bars with tetrahedral are the most artistic. Typically, these bars are made up of three parts: the base, the barrel and Kyoto. The ground bar buried in the ground, the trunk was under special attention carpenter and carver, the upper part of the column - Kyoto was in the form of a gable roof covered with figure skates.

The flat bars were subjected to several different artistic wood processing. They pattern was only on the front side, the very same composition consisted of a base, stem and Kyoto. But all of these elements have been significantly altered due to processing and decorative techniques. The base is very strong and decorate near vertical grooves, some artists added thereto painting compositionally repeating outlines column. The central portion has an elongated oval shape up, completed under the Kyoto two curls. Ornament shrine consisted of carved letters - name, surname, patronymic and date of death of the person who is buried under the column.