CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE SLOBOZHAN SCHOOL OF CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE 17TH-FIRST THIRD OF THE 19TH CENTURY

However, having gone through the same basic stages as national architecture, the religious architecture of Slobozhanshchyna revealed in its formation a number of features and traditions that allow us to speak of the "phenomenon" of the Slobozhanshchyna school of religious architecture. Like any dialectical unity, the Slobozhansk school of religious architecture developed according to the same laws as the entire architecture of Ukraine, being its integral part. The historical development of Slobodsk Ukraine was determined by a number of factors that were crucial for the formation of the school of religious architecture of the 17th and early 20th centuries. The development of the creative system of the school of religious architecture of Slobodsk Ukraine from the end of the 17th to the first third of the 19th century must be divided into two stages, each of which had its own creative methods. The first stage covers the formation of the Slobozhansk school of religious architecture of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, i.e. the flowering and establishment of the Baroque style. The second one characterizes the development and formation of the school of religious architecture of Slobodsk Ukraine in the last quarter of the 18th and first third of the 19th centuries, the period of the region's architecture entering the community of a higher order - the architecture of the modern era. At this stage, classicism became widespread, preceding the following architectural styles - eclecticism, modernism. It is proven that the historical development of Slobodsk Ukraine was determined by a number of factors that were crucial for the formation of the school of religious architecture of the 17th and early 20th centuries. It was found that the development of the creative system of the school of religious architecture of Slobodsk Ukraine of the late 17th and first third of the 19th centuries should be divided into two stages, each of which had its own creative methods. The first stage covers the formation of the Slobozhansk school of religious architecture of the late 17th-early 18th centuries, i.e. the flowering and formation of the Baroque style. The second characterizes the development and formation of the school of religious architecture of Slobozhansk Ukraine of the last quarter of the 18th-first third of the 19th century, the period of the entry of the architecture of the region into the community of a higher order - the architecture of the modern era. At this stage, classicism became widespread, preceding the following architectural styles - eclecticism, modernism. The considered aspects of the formation of the artistic image of the Slobozhany church of the Baroque era were formed under the influence of a number of historical factors and folk traditions. Among the factors determining the formation of the creative system of cult architecture of Slobozhanshchyna in the second half of the 17th - mid-18th centuries, one can distinguish the ethno-historical one, which determined the peculiarities of the settlement of the region, and the geographical one, which determined the economic and political prerequisites for its settlement.