The book is the first volume of the catalog of the collections of Old Russian paintings of the Vologda Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve and the Vologda Regional Picture Gallery. The publication presents in detail the monuments of iconography of the XIV-XVI centuries, provided with detailed catalog descriptions. The main part is preceded by two illustrated articles devoted to the collection of Old Russian paintings of the Vologda Museum-Reserve and the historical and cultural environment in which the monuments offered to the reader appeared and existed. Many icons are published for the first time, so the book is intended primarily for specialists and everyone interested in the artistic culture of the Russian Middle Ages.

Moscow, 2007 – 824 pp. Hardcover. Format 210×270. Coated paper