S. Yamshchikov

THE OPINION THAT NORTHERN ICONS WERE SOMETHING MYSTE-RIOUS, fascinating, with hidden meanings, is of long standing. This attitűdé to the painting of the North arose at the beginning of the century, chiefly among artists, and was opposed to the sober, academic approach of the...

)Kene3Hoaop05KHbii1 BOKiaji Railway station The city wliich is tlie subject of tliis story is one of tiie oldest in the country and a centre of Russian culture which was able to preserve to our day the unique specimens of architecture and monumental painting of the eleventh to eighteenth...