1. The Church of AscensionGelendzhik Russian-Byzantine architecture is a revivalist direction in Russian architecture and decorative and applied art, based on the interpretation of the forms of Byzantine and Ancient Russian architecture. As part of eclecticism could be combined with other styles. The style originated in the Russian Empire in the first half of the XIX century. The founder of this style is considered to be Konstantin Thon. Formed in the early 1830s as a entire direction, the Russian-Byzantine style was inextricably linked with the concept of nationality, expressing the idea of cultural self-sufficiency of Russia, as well as its political and religious continuity in relation to Byzantine Empire. In a narrow sense, the Russian-Byzantine style referred as the style of Konstantin Thon, common in the second third of... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.