Abstract: The architecture and art of Kievan Rus

\n\nNo curio they say that the architecture - the soul of the tribe, as embodied in colliery. By Russ this applies provided to certain adjustments. Russia for more years been a country of wood, and its architecture, ethnic worship, forts, towers, houses construct of wood. Russian man in the woods, especially as the people who lived approach the eastern Slavs, convey their perception of the building of beauty, a whiz of proportion, merging architecture with nature. If woody architecture Sunrise in general to the pagan Russia, the rock candy architecture associated with Russ be Christian. Unfortunately, old woody buildings have non survived to the present day, alone the architectural mood of the people came to us in afterward wooden buildings, antediluvian descriptions and pictures. For the Ruthenian wooden architecture was characterized bahatoyarusnist buildings uvenchyvanye their turrets and towers, the presence of confused kinds of extensions - cages, trans itions porch. Quaint nontextual matter of woodcarving was the traditional embellishment of Russian wooden buildings. This tradition lives of the people and to the present.\nThe first stone building in Russia was at the decision of X century. - The known Church of the Tithes in Kiev, built on the orders of Prince Vladimir the Baptist. Unfortunately, it has not survived. Zato is solace famous Kievan Sophia, built several decades later.