"History of Russian Art" was prepared for publication by the Institute of Art History of the USSR Academy of Sciences under the general editorship of Grabar I.E., Lazarev V.N., Kemenova V.S. With a huge number of black and white illustrations. The main goal of this work is to give the reader a picture of the development of Russian art in connection with the general processes of development of Russian public life, the struggle of various class ideologies. The authors set themselves the task of first of all revealing the independent and original that the Russian people brought to the treasury of world art and what they can rightfully be proud of. Particular attention is paid to the folk foundations of Russian art, which make themselves felt so clearly at the earliest stages of development and which later proved themselves with such force.