Open AccessInteriors of Moscow Palaces of the Second Half of the XVIIth Century: Experience of Inventory-Taking
Author(s) -
Svetlana I. Baranova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1. problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury/izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1, problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7151
pISSN - 2227-2275
DOI - 10.15826/izv1.2021.27.2.039
Subject(s) - history , task (project management) , visual arts , archaeology , art , engineering , systems engineering
The article is dedicated to investigation of the palaces’ interiors of the XVIIth century. No genuine palace interior of that time has survived in Russia; therefore, inventories of palaces including the wooden palace which was built in Kolomenskoye are analysed. The goal of the study is to check the possibility of interiors’ visualization on the basis of detailed criss-cross study of documents, pictures and authentic items presented by archaeological findings from museum collections. Both published as and unpublished materials were considered by author. The earlier attempts of such reconstructions took place and were successful in their own ways. However, the researchers restricted themselves with the information contained in written sources. A critical analysis of those attempts is provided. In general, involvement of the survived items and rare pictures as analogues used for saturation of interiors of the 17th and the 18th centuries with items was tested as early as in 2010s when interiors in a copy of the palace in Kolomenskoye were restored in nature. Such experiment in itself demands understanding and scientific substantiation, that is related to a source study task. One of the way to solve it is to evaluate the very possibility of forming of complete inventories of the modern type for palaces’ interiors of the XVII-early XVIII centuries.