Two of the world’s leading experts realize a unique work on russian history and culture. The book traces the great turns and the timing of the various eras of the main expressions of Russian art, from the formation and the fl owering of Rus’ of Kiev (in X sec.) to the controversial period of the Tatar domination. A precise survey of the context and the peculiarities in which the russian artistic sensibility has arisen and fl ourished, fascinating the great contemporary artists and the Western public.