The history of icon painting in the Kostroma Region in the second half of the 16th – first third of the 17th century

Abstract

This study aims to generalize, systematize and study the development of icon painting in the Kostroma Region in the second half of the 16th – the first third of the 17th century. The author introduces into scientific circulation and systematizes information from a few sources that have come down to our days. In 1982, the State Archive of the Kostroma Region suffered from a fire, so many documents of the 16th–17th centuries were lost. The study is based on lost documents and archive materials in partial mention by V.G. Bryusova; the Scribe Book of Kostroma 1627/28–1629/1630, which is an important source on the social and economic situation of the city in the first third of the 17th century; information from various pre-revolutionary publications, the present corpus of Russian icon painting of the 13th–19th and other sources. The systematization of the given data gives an idea of the formation and development of icon painting in the Kostroma Region in the specified period. The beginning of the formation of icon painting in Kostroma dates back to the last quarter of the 16th century. In the first third of the 17th century, the works of Kostroma icon painters were already spreading throughout Russia and the Kostroma Region and were distinguished by their painting.