Contemporary art as a tool for influencing the politics of the Russian Federation. Art and power: their influence on each other and interaction An example of a work of art associated with power

9 - 1 Art and Power

A curious pattern is constantly observed in the development of human culture. Art as a manifestation of the free, creative powers of man, the flight of his imagination and spirit

often used to strengthen power, secular and religious. Thanks to works of art, the authorities strengthened their authority, and cities and statesmaintained prestige. Art embodied the ideas of religion in visible images, glorified and

immortalized heroes. Sculptors, artists, musicians at different times created idealized majestic images of rulers and leaders. They were given extraordinary

What qualities do artists and sculptors emphasize in the images of statesmen, rulers of different eras and countries? How do these images make you feel?

What are the similarities and differences between these images? Name the common (typical) features that symbolize power.

qualities, special heroism and wisdom, which, of course, aroused respect and admiration in the hearts of ordinary people. In these images it is obvious traditions emerge, coming from the most ancient

times, - worship of idols, deities that caused awe not only for everyone approaching them, but also for those looking from afar. The valor of warriors and commanders is immortalized by works of monumental art. Equestrian statues are erected, triumphal arches and columns are built to commemorate victories. . By order of Napoleon I, who wanted to immortalize the glory of his army, were builtTriumphal Gate in Paris. The names of the generals who fought alongside the emperor are engraved on the walls of the arch.

In 1814 in Russiato the solemn meeting of the Russian liberating army, returning from Europe after the victory over Napoleon, wooden ones were builtTriumphal Gate at Tverskaya Zastava. For more than 100 years the arch stood in the center of Moscow, and in 1936 it was demolished. Only in the 60s. XX century The triumphal arch was recreated on Victory Square, near Poklonnaya Gora, at the site where Napoleon's army entered the city. In the 15th century after fall of Byzantium, which was considered the successor to the Roman Empire and was called

Second Rome , Moscow becomes the center of Orthodox culture. During the period of economic and military growth, the Moscow state needed an appropriate cultural image. The courtyard of the Moscow Tsar becomes the place of residence for many culturally educated Orthodox people. Among them are architects and builders, icon painters and musicians.

The Moscow tsars considered themselves heirs of Roman traditions, and this was reflected in the words: “Moscow is the Third Rome, and there will never be a fourth.” To live up to this high status, The Moscow Kremlin is being rebuilt according to the design of the Italian architect Fioravanti. Completion of construction of the first stone church in Moscow -Assumption Cathedral became the reason for the foundingChoir of sovereign singing clerks. The scale and splendor of the temple required greater musical power than before. All this emphasized the power of the sovereign.

In the second half of the 17th century.according to the grandiose plan of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon- create holy places in the image of Palestine, associated with the earthly life and feat of Jesus Christ, -

was built near MoscowNew Jerusalem Monastery. His main the cathedral is similar in plan and sizeChurch of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.This is the brainchild of Patriarch Nikon - ver-

tire development of ancient traditions of the Russian Church, originating from

since the baptism of Rus' (X century). In the 18th century. a new chapter of Russian history has opened. Peter I, in the apt expression of Pushkin, “cut a window to Europe” - foundedSaint Petersburg .

New ideas are reflected in all types of art. Secular painting and sculpture appeared, music changed to a European style. The choir of sovereign singing clerks is now

transferred to St. Petersburg and became the Court Choir (Peter I himself often sang in this choir).

The arts proclaim praise to the Lord and toast to the young Tsar of All Rus'. Now the Choir Chapel named after M. I. Glinka is a majestic monument of Russian culture, famous throughout the world. The chapel helps to maintain the connection of times and the continuity of traditions.

In the twentieth century, during the era of Stalinism in our country, pompous, magnificent architecture emphasized the strength and power of the state, reducing the human personality to an insignificant level,

ignored the individual uniqueness of each person. The soulless mechanism of state coercion highlights the grotesque element in music (D. Shostakovich, A. Schnittke, etc.).

The democratic sentiments of the people are foundespecially bright expression in art V turning points in history. This and revolutionary songs, marches during the October Revolution

coup in Russia (1917), posters, paintings, musical compositions from the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).This is both a mass song, reflecting the labor enthusiasm of the post-war years, and an original song of the second half of the 20th century. (a type of urban folklore), expressing not only the lyrical sentiments of the younger generation, but also a protest against the restriction of personal freedom, especially pronounced

developed in rock music.

Give examples of historical eras with authoritarian and democratic rule.

Select works of art that reflect the ideas of these states. Contact Help

literature.

Look at pictures, fragments from films, listen to pieces of music that express the ideals of the people at different times in different countries. What do you have to say about both social ideals?

By what means and for what purpose does art influence people today?

Artistic and creative task

Prepare a report or computer presentation on a topic related to instilling certain feelings and thoughts in people through the means of art. Analyze various works of art of the same type of art in different eras or select an era and, based on works of different types of art, present its holistic image.

Bulat Okudzhava

Vladimir Vysotsky

Boris Grebenshchikov

Alexander Galich

Report

Theme "Art and

power" in the subject of art.

From the personal experience of a teacher.

Art teacher

MBOU secondary school No. 1

Dobroe village

The subject of art is quite young. And in my case - completely new, because... I've only been working with him for three years.

How does art differ from the Moscow Art and Culture, fine arts, music, history?

If you think about it, perhaps this is the only subject in the school curriculum that, based on historical facts and dates, world-famous names and surnames, masterpieces of world cultural life, teaches the child not just to memorize, analyze, evaluate what he saw or heard. Art encourages spiritual and sensual work.

This lesson requires the result of mental labor; there should be not just knowledge or acquisition of this or that skill, but a feeling of the emergence within oneself of some feeling: joy, bitterness, love, hatred, peace, anger, admiration, contempt, compassion, etc. .d.

What does this subject offer on the topic “Art and Power”.

A curious pattern is constantly observed in the development of human culture. Art, as a manifestation of the free, creative powers of man, the flight of his imagination and spirit, was often used to strengthen power, secular and religious. Thanks to works of art, the government strengthened its authority,
and cities and states maintained prestige.
Art embodied the ideas of religion in visible images, glorified and immortalized heroes. Sculptors, artists, and musicians at different times created idealized, majestic images of rulers and leaders. They were given extraordinary qualities, special heroism and wisdom, which, of course, aroused respect and admiration in the hearts of ordinary people. These images clearly demonstrate traditions going back to ancient times - the worship of idols, deities, which aroused awe not only in everyone approaching them, but also in those looking from afar. The valor of warriors and commanders is immortalized by works of monumental art. Equestrian statues are erected, triumphal arches and columns are built to commemorate victories.
By decree of Napoleon I, who wanted to immortalize the glory of his army, the Triumphal Gate was built in Paris. The names of the generals who fought alongside the emperor are engraved on the walls of the arch.
In 1814 in Russia, to the solemn meeting of the Russian liberating army, returning

from Europe after the victory over Napoleon, the wooden Triumphal Gate was built at the Tverskaya Zastava, at the site where Napoleon’s army entered the city.
In the 15th century after the fall of Byzantium, which was considered the successor of the Roman Empire and was called the Second Rome, Moscow became the center of Orthodox culture.

During the period of economic and military growth, the Moscow state needed an appropriate cultural image. The courtyard of the Moscow Tsar becomes the place of residence for many culturally educated Orthodox people.

Among them are architects and builders, icon painters and musicians.
The Moscow tsars considered themselves heirs of Roman traditions, and this was reflected in the words: “Moscow is the Third Rome, and there will never be a fourth.” To correspond to this high status, the Moscow Kremlin is being rebuilt according to the design of the Italian architect Fioravanti. The completion of the construction of the first stone church in Moscow, the Assumption Cathedral, became the reason for the founding of the Choir of Sovereign Singing Deacons. The scale and splendor of the temple required greater musical power than before. All this emphasized the power of the sovereign.
In the second half of the 17th century. According to the grandiose plan of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon - to create holy places in the image of Palestine, associated with the earthly life and feat of Jesus Christ - the New Jerusalem Monastery was built near Moscow. Its main cathedral
in plan and size it is similar to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
In the 18th century a new chapter of Russian history has opened. Peter I, in Pushkin’s apt expression, “cut a window to Europe” - St. Petersburg was founded.
New ideas are reflected in all types of art. Secular painting and sculpture appeared, music changed to a European style. The choir of the sovereign singing clerks has now been transferred to St. Petersburg and becomes the Court Singing Chapel.
In the 20th century , in the era of Stalinism in our country, pompous, magnificent architecture emphasized the strength and power of the state, reducing the human personality to an insignificant level, and ignored the individual uniqueness of each person.

We can conclude that a particularly pronounced manifestation of the connection between art and power was observed during periods of personality cults.

And echoes of this phenomenon have survived to this day in the form of numerous surviving sculptural images of the leader of the proletariat V.I. Lenin. Most often they have no artistic value and are made rather clumsily. A reasonable question arises: is it worth saving them or not? This is where you need to think about the feelings that arise when contemplating these monuments of our history.

And, as it turned out, these feelings are very different among different generations. People of a more mature age, due to the memory of their political and social upbringing, feel respect, gratitude, warmth and even love for Ilyich’s sculptures.

The middle generation, seeing the same thing, feels the complete opposite.

And, finally, young people, for the most part, are completely indifferent to this phenomenon, which is also quite a feeling.

This means that our feelings directly depend on the information laid down in childhood. So, in order not to be categorical, not to experience intensely polar feelings towards the manifestations of art that surround us, we need to remember what was, know what is and strive to look into the future.

The subject of art is the best way to help with this.

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9th grade

Lesson #2

Lesson topic: “Art and power”

Target: continue to master the concepts of “art” and “power”, “types of art”, and the diversity of content of artistic works.

UUD:

Cognitive: get acquainted with the types of art, get acquainted with the concepts of “art”, “classification”

Regulatory: Gaining independent creative experience that forms the ability to act independently.

Communicative:Provide opportunities for collaboration – teach hearing and listening. Learn to cooperate with both the teacher and peers. Ensure dialogue with the teacher.

Personal: Make learning a meaningful process, provide the student with the significance of solving educational problems, linking them with real life goals and situations. To direct consciousness, research and acceptance of life values and meanings, to help develop your life position in relation to the world, the people around you, yourself and your future.

Teacher equipment:

Screen for displaying presentations, notes.

Equipment for the student:

Notebook, pen, pencil.

Lesson type: combined lesson.

During the classes:

Greetings.
Readiness check:notebook and pen, textbooks on ports
Marking absentees.
Repetition of the covered topic:

Let's remember what we talked about in the last lesson? About the connection between art and power
What is art? Art - part of the spiritual culture of humanity, a specific kind of spiritual and practical exploration of the world.
What types of art do you know? painting, architecture, sculpture, music, fiction, theater, dance, cinema.
When did art appear? The origin of art and the first steps of the artistic development of mankind go back to the primitive communal system, when the foundations of the material and spiritual life of society were laid.
What is power? Power - the ability and opportunity to impose one’s will, to have a decisive influence on the activities and behavior of people using any means - will, authority, law, violence (parental authority, state, economic, etc.)
When did power appear? Power appeared with the emergence of human society and will always accompany its development in one form or another.
What conclusion can we draw from all of the above? art and power arose and developed simultaneously and are an integral part of the formation of social life.

What was art used for in the development of human culture? (to strengthen power – religious and secular)
How did art help strengthen the power and authority of rulers?(art embodied the ideas of religion in visible images; glorified and immortalized heroes; gave them extraordinary qualities, special heroism and wisdom)
What traditions are evident in these monumental images? (traditions going back to ancient times - worship of idols, deities that cause awe)
Which works most clearly strengthened power? (equestrian statues, triumphal arches and columns, cathedrals and temples)
Which arch and in honor of what events was restored in Moscow on Kutuzovsky Prospekt? (in 1814, a triumphal gate in honor of the meeting of the Russian liberating army returning from Europe after the victory over Napoleon; it was demolished in 1936; in 1960 it was recreated on Victory Square, near Poklonnaya Hill, at the site where Napoleon’s army entered the city)
Which arch is installed in Paris?(by decree of Napoleon in honor of his army; the names of the generals who fought alongside the emperor are engraved on the walls of the arch)
At what times did Moscow become the center of Orthodox culture?(in the 15th century after the fall of Byzantium, which was considered the successor to the Roman Empire and was called the Second Rome)
How did the cultural image of the Moscow state improve?(the courtyard of the Moscow Tsar becomes the place of residence of many culturally educated Orthodox people, architects, builders, icon painters, musicians)
Why was Moscow called the “Third Rome”? (Moscow tsars considered themselves heirs of Roman traditions)
Which architect began to rebuild the Moscow Kremlin? (Italian architect Fiorovanti)
What marked the completion of the construction of the first stone church in Moscow - the Assumption Cathedral? (the formation of a choir of sovereign singing clerks, because the scale and splendor of the temple required greater power in the sound of music)
Guess what: Look at the screen and name the works of art:

Sun God - Ra
Octavian Augustus from Prima Porto. Roman statue
The Pyramid of Cheops
Narva Triumphal Gate, St. Petersburg
Idols. Statues of pagan gods
Ramses II slaying a Syrian barbarian.
Hercules
Moscow Triumphal Gate, St. Petersburg
Golden funeral mask of Tutankhamun
Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin

Well done!

6. Learning new material:

We continue with youlesson topic: “Art and power”

Write in your notebook:In the second half of the 17th century. According to the grandiose plan of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon - holy places were created in the image of Palestine, associated with the earthly life and feat of Jesus Christ - the New Jerusalem Monastery was built near Moscow.

Its main cathedral is similar in plan and size to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. This is the brainchild of Patriarch Nikon - the pinnacle of the development of the ancient traditions of the Russian Church, dating back to the time of the baptism of Rus' (10th century).

The “Tale of the Destruction of the Russian Land” says:

“O bright and beautifully decorated Russian land! And you are surprised by many beauties; You are surprised by many lakes, steep mountains, great cities, wondrous villages, temples of God, terrible princes... you are filled with everything, Russian land!”
This beauty has inspired our people for centuries. Monuments of architecture and fine arts, icon painting are a wonderful asset to society.

Write in your notebook:In the 18th century a new chapter of Russian history has opened.

Peter I, in the apt expression of Pushkin, “cut a window to Europe” - founded Saint Petersburg .

Write in your notebook:New ideas are reflected in all types of art. Secular painting and sculpture appeared, music changed to a European style.

Let's listen to V. Titov's concert dedicated to the Poltava victory.

Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c. 1650-1710) - Russian church composer, sovereign choir clerk.

Titov Concert in honor of the Poltava victory

The choir of the sovereign's singing clerks has now been transferred to St. Petersburg and becomes the Court Singing Chapel (Peter I himself often sang in this choir). The arts proclaim praise to the Lord and toast to the young Tsar of All Rus'.

Now the Choir Chapel named after M. I. Glinka is a majestic monument of Russian culture, famous throughout the world. The chapel helps to maintain the connection of times and the continuity of traditions.

(slide Glinka Choir Chapel)

We can observe the celebration of power especially clearly in music.

“God save the Tsar!” -National anthem Russian Empire from 1833 to 1917, replacing the previous anthem "Russian prayer ».

Listen to the hymn “God Save the Tsar!”

Who can give an example of the use of this kind of hymns in modern history? (God save the queen).

One example of modern use of such anthems is the British anthem.

Listening to the British Anthem

British anthem in Russian

God save our gracious Queen

Long life to our noble Queen

God save the queen

Send her a victory

Happiness and nice

Long to reign over us

God save the queen

The Moscow Palace of Soviets is one of the most famous unrealized architectural projects in history. A huge (the largest and tallest in the world) building, which was supposed to become a symbol of victorious socialism, a symbol of the new country and the new Moscow. This project still amazes us today.

Most likely, the Palace of Soviets was built so that, after the victory of the World Revolution, within its walls it would accept ... the last republic into the Soviet Union. And then the whole world will be one Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The soulless mechanism of state coercion highlights the grotesque element in music (D. Shostakovich, A. Schnittke, etc.).

The democratic sentiments of the people find especially vivid expression in art at turning points in history. These are revolutionary songs, marches during the October Revolution in Russia (1917),

Video fragment of songs of the October Revolution

...monuments,

posters,

works of painting,

musical compositions from the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

This is both a mass song, reflecting the labor enthusiasm of the post-war years, and an original song of the second half of the 20th century. (a type of urban folklore), expressing not only the lyrical sentiments of the younger generation, but also a protest against restrictions on individual freedom, especially clearly expressed in rock music.

Such wonderful singers: V. Vysotsky, B. Okudzhava, A. Galich, B. Grebenshchikov……

7. Consolidation of the material covered:

TEST:

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _

Secular and religious

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Continue the sentence:

Today I found out...
I was surprised...
I purchased...
I will try…
I wanted…

8. Homework

Divided into groups, prepare a presentation:

(3 – 4 slides) or a message on one of the topics:

Jacques Louis David on Napoleon(presentation)
Portraits of celebrities by artist D. G. Levitsky(slides with the names of the paintings)
Monuments of the Moscow Kremlin(slides with names of monuments)
Triumphal Arches of the World(presentation)
Artistic works of the same art form (music, painting, literature, architecture, sculpture) in different eras(presentation)
Artistic works of one era (Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Realism) of different types of art(presentation)
Sights of St. Petersburg. Monuments(slides-photos)
Cathedrals of Russia (presentation-film)

Preview:

Homework:

1. Retelling according to the textbook (pp. 104-105)(Necessarily)

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1. Artistic works of the same art form (music, painting, literature, architecture, sculpture) in different eras(presentation)

2. Artistic works of the same era (Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Realism) of different types of art(presentation)

3. Sights of St. Petersburg. Monuments(slides-photos)

4. Cathedrals of Russia (presentation-film)

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1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

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A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

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5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia after the 17th century.

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _____________________

________________________________________

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

________________________________________

5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia after the 17th century.

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _____________________

________________________________________

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

________________________________________

5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia after the 17th century.

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _____________________

________________________________________

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

________________________________________

5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia after the 17th century.

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _____________________

________________________________________

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

________________________________________

5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia after the 17th century.

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I? _____________________

________________________________________

A) B. Iofan B) Dm. Levitsky

B) J.L.David

________________________________________

5. Identify the New Jerusalem Cathedral

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

2. Art and power in Russia

after 17th century

1. Which monastery was built according to the plans of Patriarch Nikon?

A) Assumption Cathedral

B) New Jerusalem Monastery

B) Cathedral of Christ the Savior

2. What changes in art occurred during the time of Peter I?)

2. What innovations appeared in Rus' with the reign of Peter I? (secular painting and sculpture appeared; the music changes to a European style; The choir of sovereign singers becomes the Court Singing Chapel in St. Petersburg)

3. What role did Soviet architecture play in the 20th century during the era of Stalinism? (lush, pompous architecture emphasized the power and strength of the state, reducing the human personality to an insignificant level, ignoring the individual uniqueness of each person)

4. Which composers had to fulfill orders from the state? (D. D. Shostakovich, A. G. Schnittke)

5. Give examples of vivid expression of democratic sentiments in art? (revolutionary songs and marches; posters; music from the Second World War; mass song about labor enthusiasm; author's song of the mid-20th century; rock music)

Art and power

Sukhareva Svetlana Viktorovna – art teacher of the MBOU secondary school in the village of Nikolskoye

To introduce students to works of art, thanks to which the authorities strengthened their authority, and cities and states maintained their prestige.

In human development

culture constantly

An interesting pattern can be observed. Art as a manifestation of the free, creative powers of man, the flight of his imagination and spirit was often used

to strengthen power, secular and religious.

August from Prima Porta- a more than two-meter statue of Augustus, found in 1863 in the villa of the wife of Emperor Augustus. The villa was discovered near Rome on the Via Flaminia in the area of Prima Porta, which in ancient times was called Ad Gallinas Albas. The statue is a copy of a bronze original commissioned by the Roman Senate in 20 BC. e. It is believed that the statue, unlike most surviving images of Augustus, has a portrait likeness. It is very likely that, according to ancient tradition, it was polychrome. Currently, the statue is kept in the Vatican Chiaramonti Museum.

France Paris

date of construction: 1836

The most famous of the triumphal arches is located in the heart of Paris on the Champs Elysees. It took more than 30 years to build!

Emperor Napoleon ordered the creation of the Arc de Triomphe in honor of the victories of the French army. However, he never saw his brainchild.

Construction of the arch was completed after his death.

Russia, Moscow

date of construction: 1968

The main Arc de Triomphe of Russia was rebuilt, dismantled and even transported. Initially, it was a wooden arch built at the Tverskaya Zastava to welcome Russian soldiers from the liberation campaign across Europe in 1814. During the Soviet years, the arch was hidden in a museum for 30 years.

“Portrait of Catherine II - Lawgiver” caused widespread controversy in the Russian press. The discussion was started by the poet I. F. Bogdanovich. He addressed the artist with a poetic greeting

Levitsky! Having inscribed the Russian deity,

To whom the seven seas rest in delight,

With your brush you showed in Peter's city

Immortal beauty and mortal triumph.

Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin- an Orthodox church located on Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin. Built in 1475 - 1479 under the leadership of the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti. The main temple of the Moscow state. The oldest fully preserved building in Moscow.

Resurrection Cathedral The New Jerusalem Monastery, built in 1658-1685, was conceived as a copy of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, but during construction it was not an exact repetition of the prototype, but rather its artistic transformation. The cathedral was erected according to measurements brought from Jerusalem, and at the first stage of construction, until 1666. The work was personally supervised by Patriarch Nikon. He also sent craftsmen from the patriarchal court. Due to Nikon's disgrace and exile, the construction of the entire monastery and the cathedral in particular was suspended, and continued by decree of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich in 1679

Palace of Soviets- an unrealized grandiose construction project of the Soviet government, work on which was carried out in the 1930s and 1950s: a grandiose administrative building, a place for congresses, celebrations, etc. It was supposed to be the culmination of all high-rise construction of the USSR in the post-war years, the ninth , the central and main Stalinist skyscraper

The love of singing and music passed on to him from his father, Boleslav Shostakovich, a professional revolutionary exiled by the tsarist government to permanent settlement in Siberia.

Shostakovich's first serious achievements in the development of civil themes in music were his Second and Third Symphonies (1927-1929). They occupy a special place both in the composer’s work and in the history of Soviet music, because they were one of the first symphonic works to reflect a revolutionary theme.

The war that began in 1941 pushed back the implementation of peacetime plans. “I dedicate my 7th symphony to our fight against fascism, our upcoming victory over the enemy, to my hometown - Leningrad,” Shostakovich wrote on the score in the summer of 1941.

With extraordinary enthusiasm, the composer began to create his Seventh Symphony. “Music burst out of me uncontrollably,” he later recalled. Neither hunger, nor the onset of autumn cold and lack of fuel, nor frequent shelling and bombing could interfere with inspired work.

Prepare a report or computer presentation on a topic related to instilling certain feelings and thoughts in people through the means of art.
Analyze various works of art of the same type of art in different eras or select an era and, based on works of different types of art, present its holistic image.