1995 RUSSIA KIEVAN RUSSIA KIEVAN RUS' CHURCH ARCHITECTURE IN KIEVAN RUSSIA

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BUILDING THE CHURCHES IN KIEVAN RUSSIA by Pavel A. Rappaport Variorum, Ashlake ltd.,London, 1993 Book Details 1st. Edition. xv, 230pp with 65 black and white illustrations and plans. Size of Book 24cm x 16cm/9.5in x 6in Book Description Very good (+) to near fine publisher’s original dark blue cloth covers with title in silver on the spine. Ib a very good (+) to near fine dust jacket with a slightly faded spine. The text is in excellent condition with no foxing, marks or other blemishes. About this Book This work is the first systematic study of how monumental buildings were constructed in medieval Russia. It deals specifically with ecclesiastical architecture, but also discusses such secular architecture, palaces or towers. In scope the book covers the territory of the Kievan state and the principalities that succeeded it, from the C10th to the C13th. Pavel Aleksandrovich Rappoport was the author of many of the standard works on the architectural history of Russia, whether monumental, military or domestic. He was also a leading archaeologist. In Building the Churches of Kievan Russia his aim is to investigate how people went about building them: from brickmaking and lime-firing to the roofing and decoration, from how the churches were laid out to how much brickwork was laid in a day. This book treats all these processes as one integrated and interconnected procedure. The detailed analysis enables Rappoport to identify the work of particular teams of builders, even individual masters, and to follow their progress from one site to another, and one town to a second. Similarly, he documents how the Byzantine styles and methods of church building, imported into Russia after its conversion in 989, were gradually adapted to meet the needs of local circumstances and climate. This study will be of direct relevance to those concerned with the architecture and the Church of pre-Mongol Russia, as well as its social history. The investigation of the earliest churches, furthermore, represents the sole extended discussion of Byzantine building practices. In terms of methodology, the book will be of interest to all architectural historians and archaeologists concerned with the Middle Ages, and makes accessible in English material that has hitherto only been available in Russian. Kievan Russia (Kievan Rus') begins with the rule of Prince Oleg (882 - 912), who extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley in order to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east and moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazar Empire. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, that of all the inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav I (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death. The state declined beginning in the late C11th and during the C12th, disintegrating into various rival regional powers. It was further weakened by economic factors such as the collapse of Rus' commercial ties to Byzantium due to the decline of Constantinople and the accompanying diminution of trade routes through its territory. The state finally fell to the Mongol invasion of the 1240s. About the Author Pavel A. Rappaport (1913 - 1988) was one of the leading experts on the history of building in early Russia, of both the buildings and the materials used. read more

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