The architectural heritage of the largest brick fortress in the world - the Smolensk Fortress Wall - has found a notable reflection in various fine arts. An overview of works of iconography executed during the 18th-19th century reveals the metamorphoses of the fortress image and the compositional techniques characteristic of the fortification ensemble images.

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Pilyak, S.A. The architecture of the Smolensk fortress wall in iconography //Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education. – 2026. – №1(93). – URL: http://archvuz.ru/en/2026_1/12/ – DOI: https://doi.org/10.47055/19904126_2026_1(93)_12

Pilyak Sergey A.
Metamorphoses of architectural graphics (the example of drawings of Smolensk’s fortress wall in the 18th -20th century)

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (91) September, 2025

One of the largest fortresses in the world, located in Smolensk, is in the line of textbook works of Russian architecture. Over the centuries, the architectural monument has been consistently regarded as a phenomenon of history, culture, architecture, urban planning and so on. At the same time, the theme of architectural graphics related to the fortress has not been subjected to special analysis. The material is devoted to the transformation of the graphic language on the example of 18th-20th century drawings of the Smolensk fortress wall and to the definition of the peculiarities of development. The task of comprehending the shift in priorities in the conservation of the fortress through the analysis of architectural graphics is addressed.

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Pilyak, S.A. Metamorphoses of architectural graphics (the example of drawings of Smolensk’s fortress wall in the 18th -20th century) //Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education. – 2025. – №3(91). – URL: http://archvuz.ru/en/2025_3/11/ – DOI: https://doi.org/10.47055/19904126_2025_3(91)_11

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