The Struggle for the Historicity of Research Methods in 1960s-1980s and the Role of “Drevnerusskoe Iskusstvo” Periodical Issues in Studying Russian Medieval Architecture

Abstract

Thanks to the complex approach to the shaping of issues of the periodical collection of articles, the architecture was regularly included into the general context of the Old Russian art, which provided to observe the synchronization of processes connecting various forms of the art of Medieval Rus’. For many years, “Drevenerusskoe Iskusstvo” (Old Russian Art) periodical collection of articles has served the idea of transforming the history of the Old Russian architecture into an academic discipline, free from myth-making and authors’