The Church of the Nativity of Our Lady from Peredki
The open-air museum of wooden architecture introduces visitors to
all kinds of wooden buildings ä churches, mills, peasant
cottages, granaries ä dating from different periods but not
earlier than the 16th century. (It is appropriate to mention here
that already in the 11th century men of other Russian lands, when
speaking of Novgorodians, would call them 'carpenters'.) Among
these the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady from Peredki (16th
century) stands out for its structural perfection. Stemming from
the Kuritsko Church is the Dormition, an icon painted in the 14th
century (now in the Novgorod Museum of History, Architecture and
Art). The remarkable icon of St Nicholas from the Church of the
Nativity, probably also of the 14th century, is kept at the
Hermitage in Leningrad. The museum continues to expand, combining
in its already extensive exhibition the most characteristic types
of civil and religious structures whose interiors contain various
ethnographic material.