Contents: Chapter One - General Information on Russian Icons and Frescoes - The religious nature of Medieval Russian painting. - Untoward conditions of icon preservation. The destruction of surface texture and the darkening of the icon's protective coat. Restoration techniques. - Mural paintings and causes of their poor condition. - Seventeenth- century conservation in the Moscow Kremlin. - On the rare deliberate alterations of painting in Rus'. - The eighteenth-century attitude to works of antiquity. - "Conservation" in the reign of Catherine II. - Medieval Russian painting and Mikhail Lomonosov. - Jacob von Stählin's materials and their significance for the history of Russian art.

Chapter Two - First Steps in the Discovery of Medieval Russian Painting - Russian antiquities discovered in the late eighteenth century. - Historico-archaeological expedition of K. M. Borozdin (1809-10). - From monuments of written language to those of painting. N. M. Karamzin's comment on the manuscript illuminations and mosaics of the Kievan St. Sophia. - The fate of the frescoes of the St. George Church in Staraya Ladoga. - P. I. Keppen and his List of Russian Monuments Subservient to the Compilation of the History of Arts and National Palaeography (1822). - Prerequisites for the growth of public interest in Russia's history: the upsurge of popular-patriotic sentiment during the war against Napoleon; the aesthetic of romanticism in literature and art; the internal policy of Nicholas I.

Chapter Three - The Artist-Archaeologist F. G. Solntsev and the Artist-Restorer N. I. Podkliuchnikov - F. G. Solntsev and his artistic and archaeological activities. - The uncovering of the frescoes of the St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir. - Restoration of wall paintings in the Kievan St. Sophia. - The 1842 law on the preservation of monuments. - Once again concerning the fate of the frescoes in Staraya Ladoga. - The beginning of conservation work in Moscow. - N. I. Podkliuchnikov as first professional restorer of medieval Russian painting. - The conservation of the iconostases in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and the church in the village of Vasil'evskoe near Shuia. - F. G. Solntsev's drawings in Drevnosti Rossiiskogo Gosudarstva (Antiquities of the Russian State). - Publication of mosaics and frescoes of the Kievan St. Sophia. - Addendum: the artist-archaeologist N. N. Martynov and his collection of sketches of medieval paintings of Novgorod, Pskov, and Staraya Ladoga.

Chapter Four - The 1840s: Men of Letters, Palaeologists, Collectors - N. D. Ivanchin-Pisarev and S. P. Shevyrev. - Historico-archaeological works of I. M. Snegirev and I. P. Sakharov. - The Old Believer community and its significance in the preservation of old artworks. - I. M. Snegirev's discourses with icon painters and connoisseurs of icon painting at the Preobrazhenskoe and Rogozhskoe cemeteries. - Private and public collections of icons. Criteria for their selection. - Moscow home chapels (molennye) as described by F. I. Buslaev. - A. F. Sorokin's collection. Classification of Sorokin collection of icons in accordance with notes made by the collector. - Ancestral collections. Icons of the Stroganov school in S. G. Stroganov's collection. - M. P. Pogodin's old artworks repository. - D. A. Rovinskii and his book, Obozrenie ikonopisaniia v Rossii do kontsa XVII veka (A Survey of Icon Painting in Russia up to the End of the Seventeenth Century).

Chapter Five - F. I. Buslaev and His Contemporaries - The 1860s Narodnost' as the key idea of the era. - Precursors of Moscow museums. The Moscow Public Museum and the Rumiantsev Museum. - P. I. Sevast'ianov and his archaeological expeditions and collections. - A. E. Viktorov. First publications of the Moscow Public Museum. - The Society of Medieval Russian Art at the Moscow Public Museum. The Society's publications. - F. I. Buslaev. His biography and works on art. - Foreign critics' comments on Russian art as reviewed by F. I. Buslaev. - S. D. Filimonov as editor, scholar, and collector. - Russian antiquities assembled at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. - V. A. Prokhorov. His journals, Christian Antiquities and Archaeology and Russian Antiquities. - V. A. Prokhorov's lectures on the history of Medieval Russian art delivered at the Academy of Arts.

Chapter Six - Learned Societies - The flourishing of learned societies in the second half of the nineteenth century. - Russian Archaeological Society. - Archimandrite Makarii (Macarius) and his church-archaeological descriptions. - Once more on the Russian Archaeological Society. - A. V. Prakhov. His scholarly and artistic discoveries in Kiev, Vladimir-Volynskii, and Chernigov. A. V. Prakhov's work as a copyist. - The Moscow Archaeological Society. - Count A. S. Uvarov's views on medieval Russian art. - Once more on the Moscow Archaeological Society. - The discovery of frescoes on the altar-screen of the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. - The discovery of murals in the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. - The restoration of frescoes in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. - The renovation of sixteenth-century murals in the Dormition Cathedral of the Sviiazhskii Monastery. - The restoration of the iconostasis in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk at the Novodevichii Convent in Moscow. - The Archaeological Commitee and the Academy of Arts. - The architect V. V. Suslov and his restorations in Pereslavl-Zalesskii, Pskov, and Novgorod. - Copying of frescoes in Staraia Ladoga, Mirozh, and the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. - The Society of Lovers of Ancient Literature and Art.

Chapter Seven - Museums, Private Collections, and Exhibitions - The concept of a national museum as presented in the projects of F. P. Adelung and G. von Wiechman. - The Historical Museum in Moscow. I. E. Zabelin and V. N. Shchepkin. - The museum in Tver. A. K. Zhiznevskii. - The Rostov museum. - Provincial statistical boards and learned archival commissions. - Church museums. - The Synodal vestry in the Moscow Kremlin. The Archimandrite Savva (Sabbas) and his Index for the viewing of the vestry. - The museum of church archaeology at the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy. N. I. Petrov. - The collections of A. E. Sorokin, A. N. Murav'ev, and Porfirii Uspenskii. - Museums of church archaeology at the ecclesiastical academies of Moscow and St. Petersburg. - The department of church archaeology at the Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment and the Society's museum. - The Tula eparchial depository of antiquities. Depositories of antiquities in Vladimir and Archangel. - Private museums of V. A. Prokhorov, F. M. Pliushkin, A. S. Uvarov, and P. I. Shchukin. - The collectors N. M. and A. M. Postnikov and I. L. Silin. Antiquaries T. F. and S. T. Bolshakov. - N. S. Leskov and his contribution to the popularization of Medieval Russian painting. - Russian antiquities at the World Exposition in Paris in 1867. - Exhibitions at archaeological congresses. Church antiquities at the exhibition of the Eighth Archaeological Congress in Moscow in 1890. - The art and archaeology exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1898. On the Moscow exhibitions of the representations of Christ and the Mother of God in 1896 and 1897.

Chapter Eight - Academy and University Scholarship - Medieval Russian painting as reflected in the Proceedings of the Second Department of the Academy of Sciences. I. I. Sreznevskii. - Descriptions of manuscript collections and single codices as a source for the study of Byzantine and Russian miniatures. V. N. Shchepkin's views on the illuminated manuscripts. - Chairs of the history of art in metropolitan and provincial universities. - N. P. Kondakov. The Odessa period of his life and work: from classical archaeology to the history of Byzantine art. - Kondakov's contemporaries. - The St. Petersburg period of Kondakov's life and work: from Byzantine to Russian antiquities. The importance of his report "On the Scientific Objectives of the History of Medieval Russian Art." - V. V. Stasov. His articles on art. The atlas The Slavonic and Eastern Ornament in Ancient and Modern Manuscripts (1887). - Problems of art and literature in works by A. I. Kirpichnikov. - Church archaeology as a subject of study and teaching in theological academies. I. D. Mansvetov, A. A. Dmitrievskii, A. P. Golubtsov. N. V. Pokrovskii and his iconographic investigations. - Art issues in E. E. Golubinskii's History of the Russian Church. - E. K. Redin and D. V. Ainalov. Conclusion. (Russian History and Culture)

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