Abstract
The New Jerusalem Monastery is one of the largest cultural and historical monuments of Russia. A long history of anthropogenic transformation of the landscape has also changed the properties of soils. The territory inside the monastery walls has been exposed to the greatest transformation. The soils outside the monastery in the valley of the Istra River have undergone less anthropogenic transformation. We identified the main types of soils, and characterized their morphological peculiarities, and physical and chemical properties. Urbic Technosols on technogenic sediments are described in the different types of land uses: near the cemetery from the 17th century, under the apple tree orchard, and on the grassplot near the south wall of the monastery. The results of the study can be used to restore the monastery and historical landscape.
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New Jerusalem’s history, architecture and art museum was organized in 1920 within the precincts of the late “New Jerusalem” Resurrection (Voskresenskiy) monastery. It is one of the largest museums is the vicinity of Moscow. “New Jerusalem” Resurrection monastery is a unique phenomenon in Russian history and culture. The intention of its founder, patriarch Nicon (1605–1681), was really daring - to recreate the Holy Land of the Christians near Moscow. “Palestine” near Moscow was planned and realized as a grandiose architectural and landscape complex.
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Kolesnikova, V.M., Urusevskaya, I.S., Vertyankina, V.Y. (2019). Reflections on the Modern Soil Cover of the New Jerusalem Monastery: The History of Anthropogenic Landscape Transformation. In: Vasenev, V., Dovletyarova, E., Cheng, Z., Prokof’eva, T., Morel, J., Ananyeva, N. (eds) Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services. SUITMA 2017. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89602-1_6
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