Westernism Genesis in Russian Art as a Reflection of the Fatality of National Policy

Abstract

The scientific goal of this paper aims to use interdisciplinary analysis to show how reforms of Peter I had a devastating impact on Russia. These reforms had a devastating impact on Russia, which was the last state stronghold of the OrthodoxSlavic world, in favor of Protestant models of Roman-German civilization. The aggressive rejection of Eastern Christianity characterized these models. The political system’s transformations are most clear in its cultural and ideological sphere, where art becomes a means of self-expression for those in power. The author of the article, thus, focuses on architecture as a major type of art and shows the completely pro-Western nature of the country’s reform. And if the power and society were one before Peter I reform, then since the XVII century they became divided into alienated civilizations. Moreover, the Russian authorities subjected the field of art to Western influence, leading to an indirect “foreign yoke.” This fostered antagonistic contradictions within society, culminating in the events of 1917, when the “Alien” power was finally overthrown.