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 Òîïèêè      ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêóTHE UNIVERSITIES in IRELAND.
 In
 the turbulent centures that followed the Norman invasion, several  efforts
 were  made to establish  universities in Ireland. In 1311, John de
 Leah, Archbishop of Dublin, obtained a bull from Pope Clement V authorizing him
 to establish a university in Dublin, but he died before anithing could be
 accomplished. An attempt was made in 1465 to
 found a university in Drogheda; this was to be endowed, as far as
 the  Prliament  of the England Pale could do it, with all the rights and privileges
 of the university of Oxford. The parliament
 concerned was presided over by Tomas, Earl of Desmond; two ears later he
 was attainted and beheaded, his estates were confiscated, and once more the
 idea of a university came to nothing.At last,in 1591, the idea was realized.
 TRINITY
 COLLEGE DUBLIN
 In
 that year a group of Dublin citixents obtained
 a charter from Queen Elizabeth
 I incorporating Trinity College as a mater universitatis. By this term
 they envisaged that a  group of
 university colleges would sterm from
 Trinity in the continental and English style;owing to the course of
 Tudor and subsequent Irish history that ideal has not yet been realized.The
 Corporation of Dublin granted to the new
 foundation the lands and dilapidated buldings of the Monastery of All
 Hallows,lying south-east of the  sity  walls
 Subscriptions were raised from among the  principal  gentleman of
 each  country, who had been invited to
 assist  the new college to the benefit
 of the whole country, whereby Knowlege, Learning and Civility may be increased,to
 the banishment of barbarism,tumults and disorderly living from among them. A
 number of  landed estates were secured
 to the College out of the confiscations which followed the defeat northen
 Earls.
 The
 university was  designed to
 encourage  English culture in
 Ireland,and to promote the reformed religion in it's statutory form,so that
 it's establishment afforded no opportunities for higher  education to  recusant bodies, whether Catholic or Dissenting. The college
 survived the storms of the Cromwellian and
 Revolution periods, and settled down as the university of the  colonial
 ascendancy, taking it's tone
 from the new Whig society,mainly mercantile and nouveau riche,which had
 been put in power by the  Williamite
 victory. Yet even in the religious and political doldrums of the eghteenth
 century, the true university and liberal spirit  survived in Trinity,and it's alumni included Swift,Berkeley,
 Bruke, Goldsmith, Grattan,and Wolf Tone. Towards the close of the  century there was an awakening sense  of  independence  and of
 patriotism in what had been a colonial minority, with  a
 consequent relaxation of the penal code which had discriminated, in
 religion and culture, against the native
 Irish and the  Anglo-Irish
 majority; and after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act,1793, Trinity
 abandoned the exclusive character it had hith erto borne.
 Since
 1947,  the College has  received
 substantial grants from the Irish State. Recent years have brought to
 the University a great diversity of students, wuth many of the undergraduates
 coming from Great Britan and from overseas.
 The
 University is represented by the Chancellor,Vice-Chancellor and Senate,whose
 main function is to confer degrees.The College is governed by the Board of
 Trinity College.The assent of the Board is required to all  professional chairs and other academic
 posts, and determines details of courses and examinations. The Povost of the
 College is nominated by the Goverment from one of three names submitted by the
 Board. Except in this last respect,the University and the College enjoy
 complete autonomy. The College Library is Great Britan and Ireland.
 THE NATIONAL
 UNIVERSITY of IRELAND.
 Under the QueenÒs College
 (Ireland) Act,1845,Colleges were established by the Goverment at Cork, Galway
 and Belfast,to provide higher education on a non-denominational basis.
 Ufortunately, the character of these
 Colleges  were felt to be out of
 accord with Catholic educational principles, and after a storm of public
 controversy they were condemned by the Hierarchy.
 In
 1854,the Catholic University of Ireland was established by the  Hierarchy, who  invited John  Henry  Newman to be it's first Rector. Newman,
 imbued with the liberal principles embodied in his celebrated Idea of a  University, was not quite at home amid the
 realities of Irish political and religious controversy, and his brave experiment
 failed. As 'Newman's University' was not recognized by the State,it could not
 confer degrees,neither did it have any public endowment. Coriously, it's best
 success was in medicine, for the
 College of Surgeons and the ApothecariesÒ Hall recognized the courses of
 study pursued by the Catholic University
 Medical School students and admitted them to the  College and Hall examinations, thus to
 become registered medical practitioners.
 The
 Royal  University was founded in 1879.
 This was merely an examining  body, set
 up mainly for  the purpose of enabling
 the students of the  Catholic  University to obtain recognized degrees. In
 1883,the Catholic University,henceforth to be called University
 College,Dublin, was placed in the charge of the Society of Jesus, who
 maintained it succesfully until the passing of the Irish Universities
 Act,1908. This Act provided for the dissolution of the Royal University and of
 QueenÒs College, Belfast, and for the foundation in their stead of two new Universities,
 one in Belfast  which was to become
 Queen's University, and the other, in Dublin,the National University of Ireland.
 The two universities are self-governing institution ope-
 rating under charter, autonomous as regards
 policy and administration, and appointing their own academic and
 administrative staffs.
 The
 National University of Ireland is a federal university, with a central office
 in Dublin and three Constituent Colleges: University College Dublin, University
 College Cork, University College Galway; and one Recognized College, St.
 PatrickÒs College, Maynooth. Maynooth is a seminary for the training of Catholic'clergy.
 It was  founded in 1795 and endowed by a
 Goverment who, chastened by the
 French  Revolution, recognized
 the conservative and conserving character of the Irish priesthood. In 1845 the
 Maynooth College  Board of Trustees was
 incorporated by Statute, and in 1899 was invested by the Holy  See with authority to confer degrees in
 Philosophy, Theology, and Canon Law.
 The
 National University itself does not teach; the courses for degrees are
 conducted by the Colleges  which, in
 practice, lay  down  their own programme and set their own
 examinations. Courses are given in the various faculties,with certain exceptions,at
 each of the Constituent Colleges; and in Arts, Philosophy and Sociology,
 Celtic  Sudents, and Science at
 Maynooth. Courses in Dairy  Science are
 given only at University College Cork;courses in General Agriculture and
 Veterinary Science are (outside of  Trinity  College) confined to University  College Dublin.By the University Education
 (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926, the Royal  College of Science and the
 Albert Agricultural  College
 were  Transferred to University  College Dublin, which was empowered to
 continue the functions formerly fulfilled by these institutions.
 Like
 Trinity  College, the  National
 University receives, through the Department of Education, financial
 assistance from the State in the form of annual grants-in-aid, as well as non
 recurrent grants for capital purposes. Each
 of the Colleges is
 a complete
 organism,with it's own Governing Body and full con- trol of
 it's own finances.
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 RURAL
 DOMESTIC ECONOMY SCHOOLS.
 There
 are twelve residental schools of Rural Domestic Economy,seven of which operate
 under the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. The schools are privately
 owned,but the State subsidized and subject to
 inspection in  the same  way
 as agricultural colleges.Students are admitted from the age of 15
 upwards.The course runs from September until June.The syllabus comprises
 theoretical and practical instrustion in the following subjects: -
 Poultrykeeping, Dairing, Cookery, Housewifery, Dressmaking, Laundry, Arts  and
 Crafts, Phisiology,  Higiene,
 First Aid and Home Nursing, Horticulture and general subjects.
 At the end of the
 course, a standart  examination compris-
 ing written,oral and practical tests, is heid
 and certificates are awarded to successful candidates.About 600 young women attend
 these schools  annually. Over 250
 scholarships awarded by County Committes of Agriculture, each year, are tenable
 at the schools. In addition, capitation
 grants are  payable for each
 eligible pupil.Some pupils who complete the session at a rural domestic
 economy  school proceed to other
 studies, for careers in Poultry Specialization, Farm Home Management, Domestic
 Scients,Hotel Management,or Nursing.The course at the schools is, however, a
 good training for all future housewives.
 The
 Munster Institute, Cork, under the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries,
 conducts advanced  courses for selected
 pupils from rural domestic economy schools: -
 1.A three year course in Farm Home
 Menagement.
 2.A three year course in Poultry
 Specialization.
 3.A one year
 course in Poultry Husbundry.
 Girls who complete the  three
 years courses  are  employed as instructors by the Country  Committees
 of  Agroculture, or as teachers.
 Girls who  cmplete the year's course in
 Poultry Husbundry are employed as technicians in the poultry industry.
 ART SCHOOLS.
 The
 Metropolitan School  of  Art began as an academy established in 1746
 by the Royal Dublin Society, for the promotion of drawing and painting. During
 the first hundred years of the School's existence,instruction was free of
 charge;and the four departments of figure drawing,landscape and
 ornament,architecture,and modeling,provided courses useful to sculptors, embroiderers,
 weavers, printers, silversmith  and  workers in other crafts.In the ninteenth
 century, the School  was  successively under the control of the  Royal
 Dublin  Society, the Board of
 trade, the Department of Science and Art,and the Department of Agroculture
 and  Technical  Instruction for Ireland. Following it's transfer to the
 last-named body, classes were established in the principal artistic crafts,
 including metalwork and enemelling, mosaic, embroidery  and
 woodcarving. The School also aquired a high  reputation for it's part in the development of stained glass and
 for the felicitous influence which,under the guidance of Sir  William Orpen, it exerted on painting in Ireland.
 In 1924, control was assumed by the Department of Education; an extension and
 development of the School, was established.
 The  National
 College of Art is the principal institution of the  sistem of Art  Education in Ireland as administered by the Departmentt  of Education. It's general purpose is to promote
 the advancement of Art,to advocate and maintain the highest artistic values in
 national culture, and to combine artistic design with practical  skill in the interests of industry.
 There  are  three schools; the School of Design, the School of
 Painting and the School of Sculpture,with a Preliminary School,
 which includes an  Upper and a Lower
 Division. In ths way, the College provides for the study of the Fine Arts and
 of the Decorative Arts and Crafts, and for the training of Art teachers
 eligible  for  employment in post-primary schools. The College has working
 arrangements with  University  ColIege
 Dublin and with the Bolton Street School of Technology. It olso
 maintains liaison with the National Library,the National Museum, and the
 National Gellery of Ireland.
 Outside Dublin,whole-time
 day course and part-time evening courses are provided ay the Crawford  School of Art, Cork, and the Schools of Art
 in Limerick and Waterford.
 To
 foster the study of the History of Art, Miss Sarah Purser and Sir John Purser
 Griffith established,in 1934,two equal funds, one to be administered by Trinity
 College,and the other by University
 College  Dublin, the income from
 which provides Travelling  Scoolarships.
 and  prizes to be competed for every
 year, alrtenately  in each University.
 Extra-mural courses are given at University College Dublin,which College also
 provides courses leading to a degree in the
 History of European Painting taken
 with  another  subject. Lectures are also provided, mainly
 for post-primary students, in the National Gallery.
 THE
 CONQUERING NORMANS.
 Edward
 the Confessor died in January , 1066.On Christmas Day in the same year William
 the Conqueror was crowned king in Westminster Abbey. It had been a terrible
 year for Englishmen. From the very beginning of it they had feared that evil
 things were going to happen, and when a comet began to flame in the sky , early
 in the summer , their fears were increased. To all Englishmen it seemed to
 foretell defeat. And defeat came upon them when Duke William landed at Pevensey
 , in Sussex ,and advanced to Hastings. King Harold rushed to meet him , but he
 and many of his faithful thanes were slain. The bravest of them gathered to
 make a last desperate fight round the English standarts ,and when they fell the
 days of English liberty were over for a long period.On the very spot where
 Harold and his men made their last stand the Norman conqueror built Battle
 Abbey to commemorate his victory. If you go there today, you will be shown the
 place where Harold fell.
 It was a hard time
 for Englishmen. As William marched slowly by a round-
 about way to London, his men plundered the
 village so terribly that it took them many years to recover. His soldiers
 searched everywhere for food and all the things that an army needs. Villagers,
 flying in terror to the woods, saw their cattle driven off,their stored corn
 and hay carted away,and their houses burnt. This was the way in which William
 hoped to terrify Englishmen into submission. He was successful. On Christmas
 Day,1066,he was crowned king of the English by the Archbishop of York in
 Westminster Abbey.
 Straightway
 he began to drive English nobles from their lands,for he said they had
 treacherously fought against their true king. And in their places he put
 Normans, who despised the English, and treated them cruelly. So in the year
 1067,if you had been travelling about then, you would have seen parties of
 Normans riding through the country-side to take possession of the lands that
 William had given them in returm for their help at Hastings.These men , of
 couse,had Norman names, and if you look at a map of England today, you will see
 that some villages are still called by the names of the Norman lords to whom
 William gave them, for example, Norton Mandeville in Essex.Some English-
 men nowadays have Norman names, such as
 Harcout, Montgomery, Mantague.For
 a long time after the battle of Hastings no
 one who wished to be considered a gentleman spoke English;even little boys at
 school learnt their lessons in French, so that, when they grew up, they might
 be able to keep company with the rulers of the land and pretend they were
 Normans.
 Let
 us imagine that we are visiting a village when it is new master rides into
 it.Our old English master, our thane, is dead, for he went off with his
 soldiers when Harold called for his help against the foreigner, and fell beside
 his king on the day of the battle of Hastings.All though the winter the
 villagers have starved, for they have had little corn & meat to live
 on,since William,s army went past on it is way to London.Their houses are in a
 ruinous condition, And the very barns have gone, for some of them were burnt
 & others pulled down to supply fuel for Norman camp fires.The old mill
 wheel has not turned since the village was sacked, for even the dam, which
 supplied the water, was hacked to bits by the soldiers.So when the new master
 rides into the village, he sees lean sterving men, women and children.There are
 fire-blackened ruins of English homes all around.Some small patches of growing
 corn can
 be seen, for even in starvation time men must
 save some seed for the next crop. But the fields are small compared with what
 they were.
 How we hate this
 new-comer!How we should like to take vengeance on him and
 his men for all our sufferings, & for all
 the fathers & brothers who will never return from Hastings!But we dare do
 nothing, & say nothing.We can see that this man is no coward, for he rides
 into the middle of us, & looks all straight in the face.Rising in his
 stirrups, he calls in French : " I would have you know that King William
 has given me these lands & that you are my tenants now. Do your part
 faithfully, & I shall do mine.But if any man checks me in my just rights,
 let him beware".No Englishman understands a word, but everybody suspects
 what the speaker means well enough.
 He
 makes his way to the thane's house, & there he meets the window & her
 daughter accompanied by the steward.He explains the lady that a small piece of
 land out of her husband's estate will be left to her.She knows that she will
 be very poor for the rest of her days, but
 she is to proud to ask for anything more and withdraws in silence with her
 daughter.
 Then the Norman turns to the
 steward and calls for his accounts.He hopes
 to see out all the old thane's rights carefully set there; how
 he received so much hay every year from one man, so much corn from another, and
 so much meat from a third; and how Aelfgar and men like him work once a week
 for him all the year round and do extra work in harvest; and how Gurth and his
 equals do not work for the thane, but pay so much food. When the accounts are
 brought, he listens carefully as the stewards axplains each entry, for he
 wishes to know exactly how much the land that the king has given him is worth.
 The steward, of couse, says that the value has gone down very much in the last
 year.
 A talk follows till far on into the night,
 and many questions are put by
 the master. How much land is there suitable for ploughing? How
 much of it did the old thane keep for his own use? How many bushels of corn
 come from each acre? Do the villagers know how to manure and drain the land
 properly? Is there any grassland that could be made to grow extra supplies of
 corn? "For," says lord, "my soldiers must have plenty to
 eat".  "Yes," says the
 steward, "there is much land fit for the purpose.But do you propose to
 make the villagers work on this and do their other work as well? Remember, Sir,
 that there are fewer of them than there were". The Norman replies that he
 intends his villagers to do not only this, but much more besides. Indeed he
 goes so far as to say that the men like Gurth, who never worked but only paid
 food, shall now both pay and work, for more land must be cultivated. And he
 adds that he intends to increase the amounts of meat, hay, eggs, cheese, butter
 and other things that the villagers pay. So the stewards returns home in a   thoughtful and unhappy state, for he sees
 hard times coming for his friends and does not like telling them about the extra
 work that they will have to do. The Norman also goes to bed, but not until he
 has gone round the house with his chief follower, and posted sentinels; for he
 has no wish to be murdered in his sleep by his new servants, as has happened to
 some of his friends.He and his followerds do not thing much of the old house.
 The old English thanes did not make their houses strong for defence, for they
 had nothing to fear from their villagers. But the Norman says:"We must
 have a safer place than this to sleep in, or our throats wiil all be cut some
 night".So the steward wiil hear if another piece of work for his friends
 in the village to do.
 In the morning the
 Norman gets up early and goes on horseback round his
 land accompanied by the steward who listens
 to all his plans. He is told to have the mill dam repaired by next harvest, and
 a new whell put in. Then the master looks round for a position for a new house.
 He means to make it by throwing up a mound of earth and building a wooden tower
 on top of it. It is to be surrounded by a wall of earth and a ditch. He marks
 out the boundaries at once and orders the steward to have the digging
 commenced. Next he goes to the woods to look for timber. After the inspection
 he says:"Let me hear axes at work here when I come round tommorow".
 As he rides home he sees the old village church. The roof lets the rain in, and
 some of the timber of which
 the building is made rotting away. He
 indignantly says it's more like a brokendown stable than a house of God and
 swears in the name of Saint Valerie who sent the Normans a fair wind for their
 invasion, that he will build a stone church.
 He
 has not been long back at the hall before Gurth and his friends ask to see him.
 When they are admitted to the hall, they say they have heard the word that is
 going round, how every villagers, big and little, is to work on the new fields,
 which the lord is going to fence in, and is to pay more food than ever before.
 They say that this is against the custom of the village. They paid food to the
 old thanes, because King Alfred ordered their forefathers to do so. But they
 never laboured like serfs on any man's land. They are free men, and when they
 have paid their dues, as King Alfred ordered, no man can ask them for more.
 This
 bold speech has a terrible result. The new lord rises from his seat. His eyes
 are blazing with rage, and the villagers fear nothing less than death at the
 hands of the surrounding soldiers. " Custom !" the master shouts,
 "Custom! You talk to me about custom as though it ruled all. I and my
 friends won this land by the sword from you and traitors like you, who were in
 arms against your lawful King William. Traitors lie at the mercy of their
 conquerors and must be punished for their treachery. Custom will not protect
 you. Get you gone. Soldiers! Clear the hall".
 For
 many days there is rage in the hearts of the villagers, for the smaller men
 like Aelfgar are ground to poverty by the new lord. Thus they feel the results
 of the Norman Conquest. All English feel them as well, and for five
 years to come there are angry rebellions in
 different parts of the land.
 University Education
 There are 44 universities (not counting the
 Open University) in Britain. Although the Goverment is responsible for
 providing about 80 per cent of universities income it does not control their
 work or teaching nor does it have direct dealings with the universities.The
 grants are distributed by the Secretary of State for Education and Science.
 The English universities are :
 Aston (Birmingham), Bath, Birmingham, Bradford
 Bristol,
 Brunel (London), Cambridge, City (London), Durham, East Anglia ,Essex, Exeter,
 Hull, Keele, Kent at Centerbury, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London,
 Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Saford,
 Sheffield, Southhampton, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick and York. The federated University
 of Wales includes five university colleges, the Welsh National School of
 Medicine, and the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology.The
 Scottish universities are : Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Belfast, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt
 (Edinburgh), St. Andrews, Stirling, and Strathclyde (Glasgow).In Northen
 Ireland there is Queen"s University, Belfast, and the New University of Ulster
 in Coleraine.
 The Universities of Oxford and
 Cambridge date from the twelfth and thirteenth
 centuries
 and the Scottish Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh
 from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. All the other universities were
 founded in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries.
 There
 are five other institutions where the work is of university standard : the
 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ; the two postgraduate
 business school which are supported jointly by industry and the Goverment -
 the Manchester Business School and the London Graduate School of Business
 Studies, associated with the London School of Economics and the Imperial
 College of Science and Technology ; Cranfield Inctitute of Technology for
 mainly postgraduate work in aeronautics and other subjects ; and the Royal
 College of Art.
 Cambridge
 My coming to Cambridge has been
 an unusual experience. From whatever country
 one
 comes as a student one cannot escape the influence of the Cambridge traditions
 - and they go back so far ! Here, perhaps, more than anywhere else, I have felt
 at one and the same time the Past, the Present and even the Future. It"s
 easy to see and the old grey stone buildings how the past has moulded the present
 and how the present is giving shape to the future. So let me tell you a little
 of what this University town looks like and how it came to be here at all.
 The story of the University begins, so far as
 I know, in 1209 when several
 hundred
 students and scholars arrived in the little town of Cambridge after having
 walked 60 miles from Oxford. As was the custom then, they had joined themselves
 into a "Universitas" of Society - the word "University",
 like the word "College", meant originally a society of people with a
 common employment ; it
 was
 only later it came to be associated with scholarship.
 These students were all churchmen and had been
 studying in Oxford at that city"s well-known schools. It was a hard life
 at Oxford for there was constant trouble between the townsfolk and the
 students. Then one day a student accidentally killed a man of the town. The
 Mayor arrested three other students, who were innocent, and by order of King
 John (who was quarrelling with the Church and knew that the death of three
 clergymen would annoy it) they were put to death by hanging. In protest, all
 the students moved elsewhere, some coming to Cambridge ; and so the new
 University began.
 Before long there were new quarrel with the
 townsfolk, for the University was anxious to be independent of the Town, and
 the Town was equally anxious for authority over the new student population.
 "Town" and "Gown" battles were frequent.
 The boarding-houses and shopkeepers cheated
 the students, who very soon organized themselves under an elected leader
 called a Chancellor, and he fixed prices that should be paid. Gradually the
 University gained control.
 Side by side with the fight for
 freedom from Town rule was another for liberty
 from
 Church rule, until by 1500 the University was its own master at last.
 Of course there were no Colleges
 in those early days and student life was very
 different
 from what it is now. Students were of all ages and came from every where.
 Those from the same part of the country tended to group together and
 these
 groups called "Nations" still exist, by the way, at some European
 Universities.
 The students were armed ; some even banded
 together to rob the people of the countryside. Gradually, the idea of the
 College developed and in 1284 Peterhouse the oldest College in Cambridge, was
 founded.
 Life in College was strict ;
 students were forbidden to play games, to sing
 (except sacred music), to hunt or fish or
 even to dance.
 The Shirkov Parish.
 To the north -
 west of Tver among The Valdai Hills, which are covered with
 confferous and deciduous forest, there is a
 long chain offour lakes, formed from the river Volga: the Sterzh, Vseloog, Peno
 and Volgo. These are the upper reaches of the great Russian River Volga. Until
 the middle of the 19th centory the river was not abundant in water, but in 1843
 a dam was built below the present Volgo lake which caused this formation of
 lakes (The dam was recon structed in 1943).
 The Upper Volga is
 interesting not only for its picturesque suroundings but
 also for its reach history. In early
 prehistoric times - mainly during the Stone Age and the Broze Age - this area
 was already populated by hunters and fishermen.
 The
 ancient Pinns were the first inhabitants of this territory for many centuries.
 From the 9th century the Slav tribe, Lreeveech lived here, but from the 12th
 century onwards the Novgorod Slav community was the main population . This land
 has witnessed many important events of our history such as internal feuds
 between Princes; Khan Batu"s invasion; and the long and stubborn struggle
 against Lithuanian and Polish invaders. The oldest paths of trading ran across
 this territory. The land knew periods of flourishing as well as periods of devastation.
 Nowdays it is a picturesque region ideal for rest and tourism. Many old relicts
 and monuments of various ages have been well preserved.
 One of the most
 beautiful spots of the Upper Volga is on the Vseloog lake .
 In ancient times there were settlements and a
 heathen temple here. Today one can see the Shirkov Parish. For three centuries
 it has been standing in full harmony with the rivers, boundless fore4st and
 vast skies. Nature and architecture in harmony.
 The origin of the
 name of grave - yard is unknown. The unique Shirkiov ar-
 chitecture was created by nameless masters.
 In an old contract, drawn up by the carpenter"s team, who were to build
 the church, there was the following recommendation: " Build a temple as
 large and beautiful as your senses command" These words show the character
 of Russian wooden architecture at its best. The ability of our ancestors to
 select the sites for their settlements and churches
 is also well known.
 The
 wooden Ioan Predtechy church is the oldest monument in the Shirkon Pa - rish.
 It is considered to be finest piece of national wooden architecture. The best
 traditions of Russian carpenters are exemplified in this masterpiece. It is a
 peasant"s spacimen of beauty born in daily work and in permanent contact
 with the field, forest, rivers and village houses. Creatness and simplicity ,
 power and elegance go together simultaneously.
 The Ioan Predtechy
 church is the most interesting wooden tier church of the
 " tetrehedron on a tetrehedron"
 style. As far back as 1887 it was noted that
 " as for Russian architecture, the
 exterior of the church is unusual and of great interest". This style of
 church was popular in former times. Thus we known about the existance of
 similar churches in the Nilowa Stolbenskaya her - mitage from the middle of the
 17th centory.
 According
 to the certifecate compiled by the priest of Shirkov church Illynsky, in
 respose to a census, offered by the Emperor of the Archaeological Comission of
 the Academy of Arts in 1880s on the basis of the clerge register ( which
 unfortunately has not been preserved), the church is dated from 1694.
 Ðåôåðàò ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó íà òåìó âåëèêîáðèòàíèÿ íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå. Òåêñòû íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå ñ ïåðåâîäîì íà ðóññêèé äëÿ ñòóäåíòîâ. Ñèìâîëû âåëèêîáðèòàíèè ðåôåðàò íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå ñ ïåðåâîäîì. Òîïèêè ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó äëÿ ñòóäåíòîâ îáðàçîâàíèå ýêçàìåíû. Øêîëüíûå òåêñòû ïî àíëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó ïðî ëîíäîí ñ ïåðåâîäîì. Î ôðàíöèè òîïèê íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå ñ ïåðåâîäîì íà ðóññêèé. Òîïèêè àî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó íà òåìó ïîëèòèêè ñ ïåðåâîäîì. Ðåôåðàò íà òåìó ëîíäîí íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå ñ ïðåðåâîäîì. Äîêëàä ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó íà òåìó ëîíäîí ñ ïåðåâîäîì. Òîïèêè ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó ñ ïåðåâîäîì äëÿ ñòóäåíòîâ. Òîïèêè ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó äëÿ ñòóäåíòîâ ñ ïåðåâîäîì. Òîïèê íà àíãëèéñêîì ÿçûêå ñ ïåðåâîäîì íà òåìó øîïïèíã. Òåêñò ñ ïåðåâîäîì íà ðóññêèé íà òåìó Ìîé ðàáî÷èé äåíü. Òîïèêè ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó íà òåìó òðàíñïîðò ëîíäîíà. Òîïèêè ïî àíãëèéñêîìó ÿçûêó ðàáî÷èé äåíü ñòóäåíòà.
 
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