The Baroque appears in Russia toward the…

The Baroque appears in Russia toward the end of the seventeenth century.

The Russians imaginatively transform its modes into a clearly expressed national style that becomes known as the Naryshkin Baroque, a delightful example of which is the church of the Intercession of the Virgin at Fili (1693) on the estate of Boyarin Naryshkin, whose name has become identified with this phase of the Russian Baroque.