RELIGIOUS INTERIORS OF MOSCOW STATE PERIOD (LATE 14th – 17th CENTURIES)

The article deals with the evolution of the religious interiors during the period of the increasing importance of Moscow as the major economic and political centre of Russia, when, on one hand, the old construction traditions were maintained, and, on the other hand, radically new artistic images of the interiors as well as the novel architectural and compositional forms of spacious temples appeared. Church architecture of XVI century (construction of the tent-shaped churches) and of XVII century (“uzorochie” and the Naryshkins Baroque) greatly influenced the subsequent development of Russian architecture.