Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (5)

Authors

Voroshin, Semyon D.

Contact information

Voroshin, Semyon D. : South Ural State University (National Research University) (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000‑0002‑1625‑8642

Keywords

the core concepts of Russian culture in the Late Middle Ages; the monumental painting of the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin; the state-confessional policy of Ivan the Terrible; and creative ideas in Russian art of the 16th century

Abstract

This article explores how the creative ideas of Late Medieval Russia were embodied in the frescoes of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, the home church of many grand princes and tsars. The key cultural concepts of the period under study are identified, along with their historical and religious justification. Ultimately, the nature of the embodiment of these core concepts of Late Medieval Russia in the monumental painting of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin has been established. Interdisciplinary research methods were employed: a cultural approach combines an analysis of the semantic content of monumental painting with its art historical aspects, while the principle of historicism allows for consideration of the nature of Late Medieval culture, which embodied the state-confessional policies of Ivan the Terrible, reflected in the cathedral’s frescoes. The key position of the conceptual program of the Annunciation Cathedral’s murals was the idea of centralization of power, unification of the people, the divine election of the ruler, and the special role of the Russian state in preserving Orthodoxy

Pages

983–996

EDN

XMKPUO

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158450

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