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Kitezh
Kitezh is a legendary medieval Russian town said to have sunk beneath Lake Svetloyar to escape the Mongol invasion; it appears first in an anonymous late-18th-century chronicle and is central to many later works of literature, music, and art. The story describes wooden houses, churches with onion domes, and a visible cathedral dome before the city vanishes under the lake.
Its prime
1237
Today
Legendary
As it stood in 1237
What Kitezh looked like in its prime.
A compact medieval wooden town of horizontal log houses and timber public buildings tightly grouped around a sandy courtyard. Steep, shingled gabled roofs and green, conical tower roofs rise above covered lean-to stalls; a tall octagonal timber tower with an open gallery and a small onion dome with a cross pierce the roofline. Painted carved window surrounds and cloths at merchant stalls add bright polychrome accents against dark-brown weathered logs; a high wooden gate in the stockade opens to the lake.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1237.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Kitezh, including 5 interiors: gate passageway looking out to the lake, covered merchant arcade, carved porch and entrance steps of a house and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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