Reply With QuoteGood stuff. Bird's eye view, towns n forts, line art...good stuff.
Mevieval russian city plans and other
Most of city-maps created here are in european and more rare - arabian/asian style. Today I want show you some more uncommon stuff - medieval russian towns/fortresses, what were mostly from wood and possesed their own unique architecture and planning. May be this helpful for someone.
City of Novgorod:
http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s0...pic/000005.jpg
Wooden wall - "tyn":
http://www.archidesignfrom.ru/upload...9_2d1712-4.jpg
Fortifications of Cheboksary:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5207/...b9_96fae4f9_XL
Small guard post:
http://www.russ-center.ru/myupload/gazeta/1/ostrog.jpg
Fortress of Kaluga:
http://www.etomesto.ru/i/about/kaluga-map.jpg
Fort of Sayany:
http://bg-znanie.ru/articles/13284/nvs7.gif
Fort of Berdsk:
http://berdsk.orthodoxy.ru/history/ostrog_berdsk.jpg
Udin, fort and town:
http://www.baikaltrav.narod.ru/u-u/istf/ostrog3.jpg
Miniature:
http://i062.radikal.ru/0910/c5/97f878bc5dfc.jpg
Survived (XX century) tower:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...anec/belsk.jpg
Last edited by Sergei Zybin; 04-07-2011 at 01:04 AM.
Good stuff. Bird's eye view, towns n forts, line art...good stuff.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
This is a very helpful resource.
Regards,
RK
Posting Permissions