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492 492 RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE. Part II, which is so remarkable, so typical of the style, that it cannot be passed over. It was erected in the first years of the 16th century (1517- ■^^ES. ^.-:^=.^j^73S- 951. View ot Church of Jvurtew d'Argyisch. (Frfiin Jalirtnich der Central Com.) 1526) by a Prince Xyagon, and is, so far as is at present known, the most elaborate example of the style. All its ornamental details are identical with those found at Ani .uid other places in Armenia, but are used liere in greater ]>rofusion and with better judgment than are to be found in any single example in that country. In outline it is not so wild as the Vassili Blanskenoy, but the interior is wholly sacrificed to the external effect, and no other example can well be quoted on which ornamental construction is carried to so great an extent, and generally speaking in such good taste. The twisted cupolas that flank the entrances might as well have been 95*^. Plan of Church at ^ Kurtea d'Argyisch. Scale omitted, but the two central domes and the way the semi-domes are attached to them are quite unexceptionable, and altogether, with larger dimensions, and if a little