In the 1680s, Western architectural devices combined with Russian national traditions to form a unique style known as Muscovite or Naryshkin Baroque. This was the last original movement in Old Russia...

Although the style had first appeared as Muscovite or Naryshkin Baroque back in the late seventeenth century, the Baroque only really flourished in Russia between the 1740s and early 1760s. The centr...