Сказание о Тихвинской иконе Богоматери как источник по истории организации строительства в России первой трети XVI века

Abstract

Introduction. At the turn of the 15th – 16th centuries, a new stage of development began in the history of Russian culture, marked by acquaintance with Western European traditions. This process was especially pronounced in the monuments of ancient Russian temple architecture and was reflected in the active construction activities of Italian masters invited to Russia by Moscow rulers. For art historians, one of the important problems in the study of ancient Russian architecture is the process of organizing construction activities. Despite the large number of surviving architectural monuments of the 15th – 16th centuries, evidence of the construction process is fragmentary. In this regard, the introduction of new sources on this issue into scientific circulation is an urgent task. Methods and materials. The work is focused on the analysis of the text of one of the copies of the Tale of the Theotokos of Tikhvin, kept by the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (NIOR BAN, Collection of the Archeographic Commission No. 157). It contains information about the construction of the porch of the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin obtained by textual comparison of a number of lists of Tales. Analysis. During the study, one of the plots of the Theotokos of Tikhvin was analyzed and the peculiarities of the organization of the construction process in Tikhvin in the first third of the 17th century were revealed. Results. In the process of studying the plot on the construction of the cathedral porch, the stages of construction work carried out from April to June 1537 were restored. In the text of the Tale there is one of the earliest references to the “sovereign drawing”, in accordance with which the porch was built.