THE RUSSIAN HANDICRAFT DEPARTMENT AT THE WORLD EXHIBITION IN PARIS AND THE ROLE OF ARCHITECT I.E. BONDARENKO IN ITS CREATION

Russian Russian Handicraft Department at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris served as a vivid demonstration of both the traditional art of the Russian North and the emerging, including on the basis of its synthesis with Art Nouveau, artistic direction, later called the Neo-Russian style. In the text of his memoirs "Notes of an architect artist" I.E. Bondarenko included information about his own role in creating a pavilion for the Handicraft Department, about his relationship with his co-author, the famous Russian artist K.A. Korovin