kokoshniki

Across a green field, the second cavalier building, nicknamed the Octagon for its shape, has a trademark Russian design called kokoshniki

Escape From Moscow: Joyce Man 2008

Thanks to many corbel arches called kokoshniki, which are distinct to Russian architecture, the cupola design is reminiscent of flames.

The St. Petersburg Times 2010

Thanks to many corbel arches called kokoshniki, which are distinct to Russian architecture, the cupola design is reminiscent of flames.

The St. Petersburg Times 2010

The city has rebuilt the Church of Nikola in Posad's elaborate 16th-century roof made up of kokoshniki arches and reopened the Church of Nikola Gostinogo, one of Russia's first to be constructed of brick.

Escape From Moscow: Joyce Man 2008

For some mysterious reason, the picturesque nurses, with their pearl-embroidered, diadem-shaped caps, like the _kokoshniki_ of the

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Their nurses, with pendent bosoms and fat shoulders peeping through the transparent muslin of their chemises, make a bouquet of colors, with their gay _sarafani_, their many-hued cashmere caps attached to pearl-embroidered, coronet-shaped _kokoshniki_, and terminating in ribbons which descend to their heels, and are outshone in color only by the motley assemblage of beads on their throats.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889