Art of Russia

Art of Russia - the term encompasses human artistic activity in areas associated with the Russian state from prehistory to the present day. In addition to the Russians play a significant role in Russia's foreign artists played, especially during the Baroque and Classicism. The main base of Russian art was the culture of the tribes in southern and eastern Slavonic, as well as Greek and Byzantine art. Art, especially the former is characterized by the great reception receipts artistic centres such as the Byzantine Empire, France, Germany and Italy. Nevertheless, Russian art has developed a number of original forms and artistic innovation. Because of the many changes in the territorial district breakdown of Russia and the existence of the Soviet classification of works of Russian art is extremely difficult. In all historical periods and artistic construction activities on Russian territory was unbreakable.