Gothic" Stove Door from the Monastery of the Holy Dormition

In 2014 on the Monastery of the Holy Domitian territory on the archeology site «Udachnyi. Parking-14 (Western-5)» were conducted archaeological expedition excavations of the Siberian Federal University. In the first cultural layer, which formation happened in modern and contemporary times, the fragment of a cast iron stove door with a high relief image, was found during excavations. The aim of this work is to study the specified archaeological artifact, detecting its origin, dating definition, and its connection with the activities of the monastery. The door is not completely preserved. A cathedral with different-sized constructions overlapped vaulted arched rooves with lotus (?) on the spheres is represented on the fragment front side. A grand entrance of a building with steps and stairs is shaped with three long vaulted arches and relief columns. The frontages of additions are filled with either spiral ornament or niches with figures of knights in armors and upright spears in left hands. The four surviving arched-figured ash-pit holes and a hole at the attachment handle place prove the fact that it is the stove doors. The marks on the reverse side identify that the door had been cast on "Mikhail Nikitich Timofeev with his son Grigori and his brother Jacob" factory in Kasli on Ural. A craftsman Timofeev from a famous dynasty of Kasli molders had been an author of the item. Such doors had been made on German model of the first part of the nineteenth century from 1896 to 1914. Since the beginning of the First World War Kasli factory production of iron art products stopped. Production distribution was carried out via trade in the Ural markets and fairs, stores and shops, as well as by order system. The order was carried out by mail, the factory price list and images album, attached to it, with the things, with fifty per cent prepaid fare. Thus, as a result of the study, the origin of the artifact and its dating was found, its functional purpose was determined, however the connection of the finding with the Orthodox constructions Monastery buildings, on the available data basis, could not be established. The door could be used in any stove for example on a candle factory (1913) or a shop which had been situated on territory of the Monastery.

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