The fate of Old Russian art culture is closely intertwined with the cultural and historical life of Byzantium and the Slavic world, Western Europe and partly the East. The study of Russian-Byzantine-Slavic relations in the field of purely historical, historical, literary and art history has a long tradition in Russian and Soviet culture. The main emphasis in the works of this collection fell on the share of Russian-Byzantine relations (be it broad categories of style or, in particular, iconography).