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Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1] Initially following Byzantine artistic standards, these icons were integral to religious practices and cultural traditions in Russia.
Byzantinism, or Byzantism, is the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors the Orthodox Christian Balkan countries of Greece and Bulgaria especially, and to a lesser extent Serbia and some other Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe like Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine.
Selected pictures. ... Russian 19th century depiction of Constantine the Great and his mother Saint Helena in Byzantine imperial garments.
The principal achievement of Byzantine theology was the ecclesiastic writings of the holy fathers. The high cultural level of Greek teachers posed difficult tasks for Kievan Rus’. Nevertheless, art of the Rus’ principalities of the tenth century differed from Byzantine prototypes of the same period. The peculiarities of the first Rus' works ...
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Surviving the conditions that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Byzantine victory: 1044-1045 Crimean campaign of Yaroslav the Wise: Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Rus' victory. Rus' occupies Chersonesos, which forces Byzantium to make concessions [5] 1116-1123 Rus ...
In a narrow sense, the Russian-Byzantine style referred as the style of Konstantin Thon, common in the second third of the 19th century, and post Thon style, that began in the 1850s and more similar to the Byzantine architecture, called the Neo-Byzantine style. Russian-Byzantine style became an officially endorsed preferred architectural style ...
The oldest statement of Russian Revival, 1826 Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam. The first extant example of Byzantine Revival in Russian architecture and the first example ever built stands in Potsdam, Germany, the five-domed Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church by Vasily Stasov (builder of neoclassical Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, father of critic Vladimir Stasov).