Vassiliy Barskiy discovering the Christian Architecture in Syria

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to show scientific contribution of Vassiliy Grigorovich-Barskiy into research of Christian monuments of Syria, namely of Hauran and maybe to bring to light possible goals of his wanderings. Methods applied are critical reading Barskiy’s text as source. We will try to find sources which he could use and consider his principles for describing buildings and publishing inscriptions. The author concludes that Barskiy seems to be the first Russian and maybe European who made scientific description of 6th century churches of Izra (Syria, Hauran).

Keywords

• grigorovich-barskiy
• christian archaeology
• orthodox churches history
• history of architecture
• middle east
• syria
• izra
• pilgrim notes