Editing Russians (section)

=== Architecture ===
{{Main|Russian architecture|List of Russian architects}}
[[File:Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.jpg|thumb|[[Saint Basil's Cathedral]], built between 1555 and 1683 and combined earlier chuch and the [[Volga Tatars|Tatar]] east styles,{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}} Moscow]]
[[File:Собор Воскресения Христова (Спаса на крови).jpg|thumb|[[Church of the Savior on Blood]] in [[Russian Revival]] style, the 19th c., Saint Petersburg]]
The history of [[Russian architecture]] begins with early woodcraft buildings of ancient Slavs,{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rem Koolhaas, James Westcott, Stephan Petermann|title=Elements of Architecture|year=2017|publisher=[[Taschen]]|isbn=978-3-8365-5614-9|page=102}}</ref> and the [[architecture of Kievan Rus']].{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Rappoport|first=Pavel A.|title=Building the Churches of Kievan Russia|year=1995|page=248|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780860783275}}</ref> Following the [[Christianization of Kievan Rus']], for several centuries it was influenced predominantly by the [[Byzantine Empire]].{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Voyce|first=Arthur|date=1957|title=National Elements in Russian Architecture|journal=[[Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians]]|volume=16|issue=2|pages=6–16|doi=10.2307/987741|issn=0037-9808|jstor=987741}}</ref> Due to Mongol occupation cut ties with the Byzantine Empire Russian architecture inreached some original innovations, among them the church altar screen dividing [[iconostasis]].{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}} [[Aristotle Fioravanti]] and other Italian architects brought [[Renaissance]] trends into Russia, especially in reconstruction of [[Kremlin]].{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jarzombek|first1=Mark M.|last2=Prakash|first2=Vikramaditya|last3=Ching|first3=Frank|title=A Global History of Architecture 2nd Edition|year=2010|page=544|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0470402573}}</ref> The 16th century saw the development of the unique [[tent-like church]]es; and the [[onion dome]] design, which is a distinctive feature of Russian architecture.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lidov|first=Alexei|title=The Canopy over the Holy Sepulchre. On the Origin of Onion-Shaped Domes|url=https://www.academia.edu/2694753|journal=[[Academia.edu]]|date=2005|pages=171–180|archive-date=29 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329115442/https://www.academia.edu/2694753|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 17th century, the "fiery style" of ornamentation flourished in Moscow and [[Yaroslavl]], gradually paving the way for the [[Naryshkin baroque]] of the 1690s. After the reforms of Peter the Great, Russia's architecture became influenced by Western European styles.{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}}<ref name="Shvidkovsky">{{cite book|last=Shvidkovsky|first=Dmitry|title=Russian Architecture and the West|publisher=Yale University Press|page=480|year=2007|isbn=9780300109122}}</ref> The 18th-century taste for [[Rococo]] architecture led to the splendid works of [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]] and his followers.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ring|first1=Trudy|last2=Watson|first2=Noelle|last3=Schellinger|first3=Paul|title=Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places|year=1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yfPYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA657|page=657|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781884964015|archive-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928153552/https://books.google.com/books?id=yfPYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA657#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> During the reign of Catherine the Great, Saint Petersburg was transformed into an outdoor museum of [[Neoclassical architecture]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great|last=Munro|first=George|publisher=Farleigh Dickinson University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780838641460|location=Cranbury, NJ|page=233}}</ref> During [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]]'s rule, [[Empire style]] became the ''de facto'' architectural style, and [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] opened the gate of [[Eclecticism]] to Russia. The second half of the 19th-century was dominated by the [[Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire|Neo-Byzantine]] and [[Russian Revival]] style.{{sfn|Curtis|Leighton|1998|pp=232–233|loc=Architecture and Painting}} In early 20th-century, [[Russian neoclassical revival]] became a trend.<ref name="Shvidkovsky"/> Prevalent styles of the late 20th-century were the [[Art Nouveau architecture in Russia|Art Nouveau]], [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Lodder|first=Christina|title=Russian Constructivism|date=1985|page=328|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0300034066}}</ref> and [[Stalinist architecture|Socialist Classicism]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tarkhanov|first1=Alexei|last2=Kavtaradze|first2=Sergei|title=Architecture of the Stalin Era|year=1992|page=192|publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=9780847814732}}</ref>