Etudes on Russian Orthodox Art in Bulgaria

Abstract

The texts that follow in this book are the result of the work of the Bulgarian team of the international RICONTRANS1 project in the period 2020-2025. The team included Professor Ivanka Gergova from the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor Angel Nikolov from the Faculty of History at Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski, Rumyana D echeva, restorer from the Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies “Professor Ivan Dujčev” at Sofia University, and Simeon Tonchev, at the time a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art Studies. Later, the Bulgarian team was joined by our colleague, art historian Natalia Komashko, a long-time research fellow at the Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art in Moscow.