Medieval Russian Church

Ligatures and Вязь (Vyaz’)

Chapter 5 of Schepkin’s Textbook of Russian Paleography was actually what first drew me to this book, as it is…

Another chapter of Schepkin’s Textbook of Russian Paleography completed. This chapter talks about the dialects of Old Church Slavonic (OCS)…

My first year in grad school for Slavic Languages, one of my classes was on Old Church Slavonic (OCS) or…

I am currently reading and translating Kondakov’s book about the Gertrude Codex and its set of Orthodox illuminations, a couple…

I am currently reading and translating a book written in 1906 about a fascinating piece of history, the so-called Egbert…

I recently finished reading a chapter from “The History of Russian Art” on the applied arts in Kiev and the…

The 10th century rise of Kiev as a centralized power in Rus’, the official state acceptance of Christianity in 988,…

I was getting ready to read several chapters from the 1953 History of Russian Art, vol. 1, related to Kievan…

Today, I’d like to present an article I recently finished reading by B.A. Rybakov, about the symbolism on silver cuff…

As described in a prior post, I recently created a gilded, painted box as a gift for my friend and…