Описание (английский)
Totma is a town and the administrative center of Totemsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sukhona River at its confluence with the Pesya Denga, 217 kilometers (135 mi) northwest of Vologda, the administrative center of the oblast.
Totma is a historical town which preserved, along with other
heritage, several churches which have all similar structure not related
to any other region of Russia. A Totma church is a building on which the
church proper is based on one side and the bell-tower on the other side
so that the construction reminds a ship. This style is sometimes referred to as Totma Baroque.
Totma contains twelve objects classified as cultural and historical
heritage by Russian Federal law and additionally seventy-four objects
classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance. The town of Totma is classified as a historical town by the Ministry of
Culture of Russian Federation, which implies certain restrictions on
construction in the historical center.
The monuments classified as cultural heritage by the federal law are the following:
- The complex of the Resurrection Church and the Assumption Church (1744–1755)
- The Nativity Church (1746–1748)
- The Trinity Church in Zelenskaya Rybatskaya Sloboda (1768–1772)
- The complex of the Church of the Entry into Jerusalem and the Church of St. John the Baptist (1738–1740)
- The Kholodilov House (middle of 19th century)
- The ensemble of Spaso-Sumorin Monastery (1685–1689)
- The town hall
- The house where Anatoly Lunacharsky lived in 1903-1904
Totma hosts five six museums:
- The Totma Regional Museum, founded in 1915. Feodosy Vakhrushov, a landscape painter, was the founder of the museum, and the museum presents a display of his paintings
- The museum of Church Antiquities
- The House of Ivan Kuskov
- The museum of Sea Explorers (in the building of the Church of the Entry into Jerusalem)
- The museum of artifacts in Spaso-Sumorin Monastery
- The Ship-Building Museum