Nikolay Pokrovsky

Born in 1848 in the priest's family Kostroma Province, graduated from the course at St. Petersburg Theological Academy, which is now an inspector and a professor in the department of archeology and liturgical church: from 1898. also holds the post of Director of the Archaeological Institute. Major works Pokrovsky: "The origin of an early Christian basilica (St. Petersburg, . 1880 - Master's thesis), . "Judgment in the monuments of Byzantine and Russian art" (Odessa, . 1887), . "Miniatures of the Gospel Gelati Monastery XII century (St. Petersburg, . 1887), . "Murals in the ancient temples of Greek and Russian (St. Petersburg, . 1890), . The Gospel in the iconography of the monuments, . mainly Byzantine and Russian (St. Petersburg, . 1892 - Doctoral thesis), . "Essays on the iconography of the monuments and art" (St. Petersburg, . 1894), . "Facial iconic original Siyskogo Anthony's Monastery (Issue I - IV, . Petersburg., . 1898),
. Many articles Pokrovsky placed in the Christian reading ", . "Church Herald", . "Proceedings of the archaeological congresses", . Memoirs of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, . "Bulletin of Archeology and History", . Materials, . issued by the Imperial Archaeological Commission, and etc.,
. Pokrovsky one of the first Russian science in the study of Byzantine-Russian and early Christian art drew attention to the relationship of art to the teachings of the church and the texts of the liturgy, and introduced to the science-rich materials of the Orthodox-Eastern origin, . filling, . thus, . unilateral study of western Protestant and Catholic scholars.,