The book consists of two classic works of the outstanding Ukrainian art critic Hryhorii Pavlutskyi (1861–1924): "Antiquities of Ukraine. Wooden and Brick Churches" (1905) and "Ukrainian Baroque" (1910) from the six-volume "History of russian Art" by Igor Grabar.
The works offered to the reader became the first art studies of Ukrainian wooden and brick architecture and covered the landmarks of Ukrainian temple construction.
Special attention is paid to the sights of Kyiv Oblast, Podillia, and Volyn.
The book is equipped with a foreword by Mr. Andrii Puchkov, modern historical annotations with color illustrations (Mr. Viktor Vecherskyi), as well as name and subject-geographic indexes.
"Ukrainian wooden church architecture has only recently attracted the attention of scientists. Previously, researchers were mostly engaged in the study of masonry samples of ancient Ruthenian construction. Recently, their attention has been drawn to the wooden architecture of Northern russia and the Don Military Region).
Instead, the architectural style of the South remained largely unknown and unexplored.
Meanwhile, monuments of Ukrainian architecture have long been in need of proper publication and accurate, systematic, and scientific description. These sights are dying more and more from year to year, unknown to many and little respected by the population itself, which indifferently passes by them, helping time to destroy their precious remains. The neglect of old monuments, which leads to the fact that they are destroyed with a light soul, causes another no less evil: the effort to renew, rework, change, and decorate the monuments of native antiquity, is similar to a mania for erasing, repainting, re-varnishing old paintings.
Many things have already been destroyed and rebuilt."
