The Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Spas-Vezhi village: a lost symbol of Russian architecture

Architectural monuments play a special role in ensuring continuity in history and culture forming a single cultural landscape that unites generations. Buildings endowed with museum tasks occupy a special place. The paper tries to understand the transformation of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Spas-Vezhi village from an active religious object to a museum exhibit. The role of the temple as the first building of the Kostroma Museum of Wooden Architecture, which has been formed since the 1950s, has determined the special importance of the architectural profile of the museum and the national value of the exhibits of its collection.