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MASONRY CHURCHES OF MEDIEVAL CHERNIHIV 379ordered laying of Romanesque buildings. In the seventeenth century theoriginal church's dome was raised by a high Baroque dome and two newdomes were erected. Above the windows of the facades figured platbandswere added. This sort of small one-nave church was developed inUkrainian masonry church architecture in the fifteenth through seventeenthcentury. 49According to the chronicle, in the new princely court in Chernihiv, onthe bank of the Stryzhen' River, the prince Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich in1174 founded a masonry Church of St. Michael. 50 The church is notpreserved, but excavation of its foundations conducted in 1956 by BorisRybakov established that it was a small church typical of Rus' palace complexesin the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It had four pillars, threenaves, and three apses. The church was dedicated to the patron saint of itsfounder, Sviatoslav, whose baptismal name was Michael.In 1177 Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich moved from Chernihiv to the princelythrone in Kiev, where, in 1183 he completed the construction of themasonry Church of St. Basil (also known as the Tr'okhsviatytel's'kaChurch) in the princely "Great Court." This church was destroyed bySoviet authorities in 1935-36. At almost the same time Sviatoslav built aricher and larger church in his patrimony, namely, Chernihiv's Cathedral ofthe Annunciation, which, according to the chronicle, the prince had consecratedin 1186. 51 This cathedral is not preserved, but its foundations wereexcavated by Rybakov in 1946-47 somewhat north of the new prince'spalace on the Stryzhen'. 52Rybakov's investigations showed that the Cathedral of the Annunciationwas a large domed cruciform church with six pillars, three naves, and threeapses. On the north, west, and south it was surrounded by closed two-storygalleries with burial chapels. It has been suggested that the church had fivedomes, like the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. Pilasters with halfcolumnsarticulated the facades of the galleries. It is noteworthy that the49Iurii S. Aseev and Hryhorii N. Lohvyn, "Arkhitektura Il'inskoi tserkvi v Chernigove,"Pytannia istorii arkhitektury ta budivel'noi tekhniky Ukrainy (Kiev, 1959); Lohvyn, Chernigov,pp. 103-107; Aseev, Arkhitektura, pp. 142-44; N. V. Kholostenko, "Il'inskaia tserkov' vChernigove po issledovaniiam 1964- 1965 gg.," in Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo: Khudozhestvennaiakul'tura domongol'skoi Rusi (Moscow, 1972), pp. 88-99.50PSRL, \ol. 2, col. 571.50L. A. Beliaev, "Iz istorii zodchestva drevnego Chemigova," in Problemy istorii SSSR(Moscow, 1974), vol. 4, pp. 3 -18.51PSRL, vol. 2, col. 652.52Rybakov, "Drevnosti Chernigova," pp. 69-87; idem, "Blahovishchens'ka tserkva uChernihovi 1186 roku za danymy rozkopok," in Arkhitekturni parri iatnyky (Kiev, 1950), pp.53-63.