Marcel Proust's critical articles on art, collected by him in the book “In Memory of the Murdered Churches,” are largely the writer's response to the theories of John Ruskin, whose texts he translated into French. Proust devotes a lot of space to the functions of a museum, the observation of art, the concept of a landmark, etc. In these works, Proust’s aesthetic positions are described in detail and deeply, which later found expression in the novel cycle “In Search of Lost Time.” The collection is supplemented by a translation of the essay “Rembrandt.”< /p>