Russian Empire - Russian Empire style. Problems of studying style in church architecture
The study for the first time examines in detail the origin and meaning of the term «Empire» in relation to the Russian church architecture of late classicism and wider - to the Russian culture of that time. The spiritual meanings of the Russian church architecture of the Empire era, which are not obvious to Soviet ideological publications, are now becoming objects and sources of fruitful research into the theory and history of architecture. Since the work on this study was preceded by the creation of a large monograph «Image of the Russian Temple and the Age of Enlightenment», the author manages to trace the complicated ways of succession of temple-building ideas, which originated in the previous epoch. Through the study of numerous authentic texts and statements about the meaning of architecture and the consideration of the latest historical and source studies, the early influence on the Russian empire of medieval temples of the Holy Land is revealed.