Interior View of the Lower Church (Still Image)

Interior View of the Lower Church

Chromolithograph. The French title of this lithograph ("view of the church at the foot of the mountain") makes no reference to the fact that this is, according to the Russian-language title, an interior view of the lower church. In Crimea, the most famous example of a church with "lower" and "upper churches" is the cathedral of St. Vladimir at Khersones, where the subterranean lower church marks the supposed site of the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev in 988.

Drawn from nature by M. Vebel'
Lithography byFrançois Joseph Dupressoir 
Printed by V. Darleng

Aleksei Sergeevich Uvarov, Sobranie kart i risunkov k izledovaniam o drevnostiakh IUzhnnoi Rossii i beregov CHernago Moria (1851)

1848-1851

Digital image courtesy of the New York Public Library

1 of 69 plates

71 cm

Slavic and East European Collections, The New York Public Library; New York Public Library Digital Collections (go to the record)