Naryshkin Baroque

The Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, is a style of architecture that took place in Central Russia in the period around 1700 distribution.

The Naryshkin baroque represents a fusion of traditional Russian architecture with elements of baroque, were imported from Central Europe through the Ukrainian Baroque. It is in konstrast to clearly Western -oriented Petrinen Baroque, considered as the best-known examples of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg and the Menshikov Tower in Moscow.

The first churches in this baroque style were built on the estate of the wealthy noble house Naryshkin, from which the mother of Peter the Great, Natalia came Naryshkina. They were mostly built of red brick and decorated with white stone. The bell tower was no longer placed separately, as it was in Russia until the 17th century still common, but are integrated into the facade. He topped the octagonal central element.

However, the style was no longer limited to the soon located around Moscow property, but spread throughout the country. Many monasteries were redesigned according to the new fashion, including the well known Monasteries Novodevichy and Donskoi. The most important architects associated with the Naryshkin style, are Yakov Buchwostow and Pyotr Potapov.

In the 1730s the Naryshkin style gradually gave way to the Elisabeth- Baroque, whose main representative was the court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli of Empress Elizabeth.

Boris and Gleb Church in Sjusino (1688-1704)

Intercession Intercession Church on the Pokrowka (1696-1699, demolished 1936)