Russian style is a direction in Russian architecture of the 19th - early 20th centuries, based on the use of the traditions of Russian national architecture of the pre-Petrine period and Russian folk art, as well as the elements of Byzantine architecture associated with them. It arose as a result of the desire of Russian society to express in art the ideas of identity, nationality and nationality, making clear what is an expression of the national spirit, what distinguishes the nation from others, and is also associated with the roots of national culture