Book of famous art historians (Sarabyanov Vladimir Dmitrievich, candidate of art history, artist-restorer of the highest category; Smirnova Engelina Sergeevna, Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Department of Art History of Moscow State University) is devoted to the history of painting of Medieval Russia, from the adoption of Christianity at the end of the 10th century to the beginning of the reforms of Peter the Great and the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703.