History of Russian Art

Russian art has always chosen between the old and the new, between nationality and decorativeness, adhered to canons and trusted experiments, at some point becoming a truthful and multifaceted mirror of historical life - public moods and the demands of the time…
The best achievements of domestic art have been accompanied by a wide scope, an abundance of means, artistic completeness, and the incomparable ability of Russian masters to embody the most grandiose ideas. As a result, what is now rightfully a subject of national pride was born.
This book is a unique narrative about the centuries-old path of Russian art, an unbiased excursion into various directions of domestic artistic life, starting from Scythian and pagan times and ending with modernism.
Rare illustrative material collected by the authors allows, alongside the famous masterpieces of Russian architecture, painting, and sculpture, which remain a national treasure today, to see for the first time images of those cultural monuments that have been forever lost.