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In today's world the conservation, restoration and study of works of art, of course, is recognised as one of the priority tasks facing the world community. For Russia this problem is particularly acute as dozens of architectural ensembles, monuments, and churches were destroyed during the Second World War. Despite the tremendous work on reconstruction of different artefacts, many masterpieces of ancient Russian art have not yet been restored to an acceptable display condition. In recent decades, work on the recons...

Ancient Russian fine art is one of the main values of Russian culture, which has long and firmly occupied a worthy place among the world's spiritual universals. The search for ways to recreate the integral type of artistic consciousness – a national and historical one, actualised by modern science - significantly increases interest in various manifestations of this powerful layer of the world cultural heritage, suggesting not only its study and mastering art techniques of old masters, but also preservation for f...