ANCIENT RUTHENIAN ARTISTIC TRADITIONS OF KHOLM IN THE CULTURAL SPACE OF MEDIEVAL CENTRAL EUROPE

The publication is devoted to a cross-analysis of sources in which the ancient Ruthenian city of Kholm, now the county town of Chełm in the Lublin Voivodeship (Poland), appears as a prominent artistic center of medieval Ukraine-Rus at the intersection of Western European and Byzantine cultures. The relevance of the study is associated with the important task of defending cultural values that have long been eroded as inferior or insignificant, or demonstrated to the world only as a peripheral component of northeastern culture. New scientific research by Ukrainian experts in the fields of iconography, archeology, architecture, and art history is presented by the authors to strengthen and update the chronicle history of Princely Kholm and its temples. The authors highlight specific architectural and iconographic features of Kholm monuments and related details in the cities of Ukraine-Rus, Western Europe to illustrate the historical process of the middle of the 13th century. and the little-known artistic life of that era. The article represents a deepening of studies in the domain of Ukrainian national historical and artistic heritage for an adequate understanding of the artistic issues of Princely Kholm of the 13th century in its own historical context.