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372 VOLODYMYR I. MEZENTSEVtowers of this palace were discovered by archaeologists close by thecathedral, to the northwest. 25The baptistery, burial chapels, vestibules, the upper parts of the centraldome's drum, and the top of the church's tower have not survived. In theseventeenth to nineteenth century the dome and the tower were rebuilt; onthree sides at the exits tambours (porches) were erected; the walls wereplastered; and in place of the baptistery a new tower was built. Both towerswere crowned with high conic cupolas. It is with these alterations to itsoriginal structure that the Cathedral of the Transfiguration has come down** *From the time the Cathedral of the Transfiguration was built until the beginningof the twelfth century, no masonry churches are known to have beenerected in Chernihiv. Similarly, in both Novgorod the Great and Polatsk,after the construction of the first masonry churches in the mid-eleventh century,no new ones were built until the beginning of the twelfth century.Apparently, these provincial Rus' towns could not continue to bear the costsof monumental construction and hiring architects from Byzantium. Localschools of architects, artists, and builders of masonry churches had not yetformed in the second half of the eleventh century.In that half century, the building of masonry churches did continue intensively,but almost exclusively in Kiev. Only in Kiev, at that time, had thereformed a local school of architects and artists from among the Rus' and theByzantine artisans who had settled in the town. Artisans also continued tobe brought to Kiev from Byzantium. According to the Patericon of theKiev Monastery of the Caves, it was Byzantine artists who built the celebratedCathedral of the Dormition (1073-1078) for the monastery. 27In addition to Kiev, only in Pereiaslav from the 1080s was the constructionof masonry churches and secular buildings carried on, apparently coincidingwith the existence at that time of a metropolis in Pereiaslav, wherethe metropolitan Ephraim (Iefrem) encouraged masonry building.25V. A. Bohusevych (Bogusevich) and N. V. Kholostenko, "Chernigovskie kamennyedvortsy XI-XII vv.," Kratkie soobshcheniia Instituta arkheologii AN USSR (Kiev), 1 (1952);Kholostenko, "Chernigovskie kamennye kniazheskie terema XI v.," pp. 3-17.26Iurii S. Aseev, Spas'kyi sobor u Chernihovi (Kiev, 1959), pp. 4-11; Hryhorii N. Lohvyn(Grigorii N. Logvin), "Spasskii sobor v Chernigove," Istoriia SSSR (Moscow), 1969, no. 6,pp. 193-98.27Kyievo-Pechers'kyi Pateryk, ed. Dmytro Abramovych (Kiev, 1930), p. 5.