Ivan Antipenkov’s photo shows a camp star from the bell tower of the Solovetsky Monastery.

Now it is an exhibit of the Solovetsky Museum. The inscription reads: “A metal structure in the shape of a five-pointed star was installed by the administration of the camps of the completely dropped cross on the monastery bell tower above the Solovetsky Kremlin. A year before the start of Perestroika in the USSR, the star was dismantled at the direction of the party leadership of the Arkhangelsk region.”

…the bell tower will be restored from above. The forests are set at a height of 50 meters – this is the highest point of the archipelago, from here all the Solovetsky Islands are visible. On the upper tier, the brick began to flake off. To prevent the vault from collapsing, the builders will have to restore not only the brickwork, but also the forged strands. The crown of the bell tower will also be replaced: today the four-meter wooden cross is supported only by scaffolding… Several times a day, work on the bell tower comes to a standstill. Despite the restoration, the bells continue to announce the good news. The existing bell row was mounted without taking into account the load on the building and the emergency state of the bell tower. After the restoration, the Solovetsky bells should sound in a new way, even more harmonious. ( Irina Katorina. Restoration of the monastery bell tower has begun on Solovki. IA “Dvina-Inform”, Arkhangelsk, 27.07.2004 )

Belfry. Photo by an unknown author, taken in the fifties (?) of the twentieth century.

Sent by Oleg Fedorov, author of the project “Russian Cathedral” (www.russkiysobor.ru) – an Orthodox archive of Christian shrines.

There was a firing cell under the bell tower

“Disperse! Disperse!” – they shout in broad daylight in the Kremlin courtyard, empty as Nevsky, – three young people, smartly, with the faces of drug addicts (the front one is not a jerk, but a stack disperses a crowd of prisoners) quickly dragging a fallen man in underwear with limp legs and arms – it’s scary to see his face flowing down like a liquid! – dragged under the bell tower. (There, under the archway, through that low door, it is at the base of the bell tower.) They squeeze him into this small door and shoot him in the back of the head – there are steep steps down there, he will fall down, and you can even fill 7-8 people, and then send pull out the corpses and dress up women (mothers and wives of those who left for Constantinople; believers who did not yield to faith and did not allow their children to be torn away from it) – wash the steps. ” ( Solzhenitsyn Alexander. Gulag Archipelago. Ch.1. Part 3 )

• Execution of women in the basement of the bell tower

Destructive vibrations and the quality of Solovetsky lime

The vibrations of building structures, as well as soils, born by the ringing of bells, create prerequisites and conditions for weakening the rigidity of the frame and foundation, with all the ensuing consequences.0005

This is a truth that does not require additional proof, but then why did the bells in the ancient churches chime almost daily, and yet the buildings sometimes stood indestructibly for many centuries? Yes, because at all times the builders of temples, especially bell towers and belfries, adhered to strictly defined rules. First, excellent building materials were used. Many years ago, I studied in some detail the experience of building church buildings in Solvychegodsk and on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arkhangelsk region … and I was amazed: with what responsibility the old masters undertook the work.

Lime in deep pits fenced on all sides was slaked according to a now lost technology for several years. Having reached, as they say, to the condition, it resembled a mass, at the same time similar to thick sour cream or butter. To top it off, a considerable part of chicken egg white was added to it – for greater adhesion-gluing. Such material, of course, differs from modern masonry mortars like the sky from the earth…” ( Valentin Illarionov. Save temples from the effects of bells. Stroitelnaya gazeta, Moscow, 27.12.2002 )

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Walkthrough Parade – Second Life / Reprobates

Day Four

There is a Day 4 save .

Grabbing a daily portion of food and drink from the table, Adam goes outside.

Maria runs up to him with a message that the sheet he left her yesterday has disappeared. But the girl remembers what was written there.

Adam sets out to find the said cave. He enters cell number 2, and exchanges barbs with Herman.

Stocking up on stones and sticks, Adam sets off for the west beach, intending to go to the bell tower.

A newcomer comes out of the bungalow, judging by his arrogant behavior – an American lawyer. Without even letting Adam open his mouth, the newcomer leaves.

Adam goes “to the bungalow”.

Dorothy is too upset by Danica’s death to talk about trifles.

Adam moves “to the cliff”.

After examining the empty cache and grabbing an armful of dry grass, he climbs to the “upper plateau”.

Going “to the east cliff”.

Adam climbs down the roots of the tree, but he sees that he needs a rope to go down. Goes back. From the upper plateau it turns “to the rise to the bell tower”.

And again the bell tower is closed. Adam pry the door with a stick, but it falls through. Our hero combines a stick and a stone, uses a device on the door, crawls inside.

The previously suspended stone is found to be on the ground.

Adam moves the stone, freeing the cable, tries to untie it, but nothing happens. Lights dry grass with a stone, puts a fire on a cable knot. Throws a stick into the fire. He gets out of the bell tower, takes another armful of dry grass from the left, and comes back.

Grass is no longer needed – the rope is free.

He takes the rope, gets out of the structure, goes to the upper plateau.

Talks to Herman, who is weaving a bird trap out of bushes. Goes to the northern plateau.

Here he finds a lawyer threatening to sue everyone and everything.

It has been experimentally established that it is necessary to get rid of a lawyer, because The game will have to start from the beginning of the chapter.

Adam is heading to the west beach.

A pleasant surprise awaits him here – a new girl sunbathing on the beach with Yukiko. Her name is Eva and she is Adam’s compatriot from Brno. But, as is often the case, the conversation turns in the wrong direction. Adam asks Eve to distract Simon’s lawyer, the girl misunderstands him and they almost quarrel.

Maria came up to save the situation. She agrees to distract the lawyer from the cliff, but in return she asks to take Dorothy’s shoes.

Adam is heading to the east beach.

He exchanges a few words with the Austrian Hans, who inadvertently let slip about his sexual orientation, confirming Hermann’s opinion about him. Adam moves to the left side of the screen.

Gives Dorothy shoes. Talk to Edwin.

Adam realizes that he is moving in the right direction.

He returns to the upper plateau.

Adam sees Simon distracted by Mary and rushes to the cliff without wasting time.

Tie a rope to a tree and climb down it.

In the dark, he finds the point where the cursor points to a “dry place”. In a tried and tested way (stone and dry grass), Adam lights a fire for a short time.

In the short time it takes for the fire to burn, he notices the broken spear. He takes it, climbs out of the cave, goes upstairs. Barely climbing onto a tree trunk, Adam feels strong earth tremors. Hear the screams of an earthquake. It rises along the roots to the surface, hurries to the bell tower.

Almost all the inhabitants of the settlement gathered here. Adam speaks to Edwin and Eve, then heads towards the northern plateau.

After looking at the suffering Herman, who envies Simon with black envy, and at his bird trap, Adam approaches Hans.

It seems that our amateur volcanologist found the walled entrance to the cave. After the earthquake, the seams of the lining began to crack.