Vladimir upon Klyazma and the artistic life in Moscow of 14th-15th centuries
The article discusses the impact of the artistic life of Moscow in the mid-14th - early 15th centuries on the condition and fate of the monuments of pre-Mongol time on the landsof the Grand Duchy of Vladimir. Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir upon Klyazma constantly remained in the focus of the political life of Grand Duke Ivan Kalita and his descendants. The domes of the Cathedral being regilded by Moscow mastes, the frescoes and the iconostasis being made by Moscow painters and the temple treasury being preserved and increased by the Moscow princes demonstrate the special place of Vladimir upon Klyazma as the second “mother of cities” in Russia after Kiev.