Leonid A. Belyaev¹,*, Olga N. Glazunova¹,**, Alexey N. Smirnov^1,2,***

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²A.S. Pushkin State Historical and Literary Museum-Reserve Bolshie Vyazyomy, Moscow Region, Russia

*E-mail: labeliaev@bk.ru
**E-mail: olga-glazunova2007@yandex.ru
***E-mail: fotoellada@rambler.ru

Keywords: Moscow state, art culture, stoves, stove tiles, the Kremlin, Boris Godunov, the Time of Troubles.

During the 2019 excavations in the stratified layer of the Moscow Kremlin, a representative collection of stove tiles was gathered. Such tiles have been found in this area since the 19th century. They provided valuable information for solving the problem of the origin and chronology of Moscow stoves, for identifying the manufacturers and consumers of stove tiles, and for reconstructing the artistic environment of the royal court from the time of Ivan the Terrible to the first Romanov tsars. Glazed relief white clay tiles are described in detail, the paper gives a general overview of sources on their appearance in Moscow. The authors are the first to identify the stage of functioning stoves with early (1565–1580s) glazed relief white clay tiles produced by foreign masters.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630010954-8