Prehistory and antiquity

The oldest monuments of art of primitive peoples in areas of Russia come from the Paleolithic (statues, figurines of animals, drawings, carvings, etc.). For the Neolithic period include ceramics, ornamental sculpture in stone and bone. With the second-millennium BC come from artistic products of metal. The main base of Russian art was the culture of the tribes in southern and eastern Slavonic, as well as Greek and Byzantine art. From the eighth century BC comes from the oldest part of the building of the fortress and the old town in Derbencie.