• Unknown (photographer)

View of the principal façade of the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin, Fily, Moscow

ca. 1883

Albumen silver print

comp.: 41.0 x 31.8 cm secondary support: 63.8 x 47.4 cm sheet: 49.1 x 38.3 cm

PH1987:0467

• exterior view

imprinted and dated - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.l.: "TSERKOV' POKROVA PRESVIATYIA BOGORODITSI, CHTO NA FILYAKH, / POSTROENA DIADEU PETRA VELIKAGO, BOIARINOM L'VOM KIRILOVICHEM NARYSHKINYM V 1693 G." [CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSION OF THE SAINT VIRGIN, IN FILY, / BUILT BY THE UNCLE OF PETER THE GREAT, BOYAR LEV KIRILOVICH NARYSHKIN IN 1693.]; and l.r.: "EGLISE DE L'INTERCESSION DE LA Ste VIERGE, à FILY, / BÂTIE EN 1693 PAR LE BOYARD LÉON CYRILLOVITCH NARISCHKINE, ONCLE DE PIERRE LE GRAND." imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.c.: "No. du negatif 27059."; and with the royal seal comprised of a two-headed eagle with a crown and "Russkaya Fotografiia / v Moskve. / na Volkhonke dom Kir'iakova." [Russian Photography / in Moscow. / in Volkhonka Kir'iakov's house.] imprinted - in black ink, on the secondary support, b.: "Photographie Russe à Moscou."

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• church