Ikonostas Uspenskogo sobora Ri͡azanskogo kremli͡a

Built in the 1690s, the cathedral at Riazan marks the juncture of two eras, the end of the medieval and Muscovite period and the onset of the imperial period. This guide to its iconostasis thus records and describes a unique work of architecture and painting: a church built on the scale and in the style of Muscovy and an array of icons painted in the early eighteenth century and showing the westernizing and secularizing trend that would soon prevail. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.