About the book: 1964 / Rostov the Great, a small city in the Yaroslavl region, is well known for its monuments of ancient national art. Since ancient times, chroniclers noted the Rostov chambers and churches, named the names of famous architects and painters, and admired the book wealth collected in the treasury of the Rostov princes. For more than a thousand years of history, Rostov has experienced periods of economic and political rise and decline, enemy invasions, and natural fires, which also affected the city’s monuments. The buildings of the 12th century have been lost; works of painting from the 13th–14th centuries and applied art from the 12th–15th centuries are counted in precious units..