Content: Russian sacred architecture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Vladimir, Suzdal, Novgorod, Moscow) - The architectural style of the Moscow Kremlin - The Old Russian state. Historical overview - Spiritual-philosophical attitudes in medieval and early modern Russia - Travel reports as a source genre of art history - Travel as a social and literary phenomenon - Travel practices in medieval and early modern Russia - Western and Russian traditions of art and architecture description - "The Journey to the Florentine Council of an Unknown from Suzdal," 1438 - "A Brief Description of Rome," 1438 - "A Narrative about the Mother of God of Loreto, written in 1528 by Eremej Trusov, an envoy of Vasilij III" - The concept of the three "Rome States" and its interpretation in the Moscow Empire of the Early Modern Period - Moscow - the "Third Rome" or the "Second Vladimir"? - Moscow and Novgorod icon schools - Iconographic tradition of the Madonna of Loreto - The icon type "Mother of God of the Increase of Mind" as a rare example of artistic openness.