BYELORUSSIAN CRAFTSMEN IN LATE 18th CENTURY RUSSIA AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON MOSCOVITE ARCHITECTURE by L.A.J. Huges

The Journal of Byelorussian Studies

Vol. III, No. 4

BYELORUSSIAN CRAFTSMEN IN LATE 18th CENTURY RUSSIA AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON MOSCOVITE ARCHITECTURE
by L.A.J. Huges

...The strongly traditional art and architecture of Muscovy began to succumb to influences from neighbouring Slavic and Western European states...

...many records have survived of the recruitment of craftsmen from Byelorussia into Muscovite service...

...several projects on which Byelorussians were employed were of considerable significance for the further development of Russian architecture and applied art...
The heightened receptiveness to foreign culture which arose amongst certain members of the Muskovite nobility ...[was] reflected in art and architecture. Byelorussian craftsmen played a significant role in this Westernising process...

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