Russia achieves cultural salvation by imitating and assimilating Western culture. To understand Muscovite high culture one must initially abandon the search for the genres, activities and practitioners defined by Western experience. Western architectural ideas emanated from the Armoury and Foreign Office workshops, where craftsmen had access to prints, maps and illustrated books. The Westernised tastes of its owner, Peter I's tutor Prince Boris Golitsyn, who knew Latin and had access to Italian craftsmen, place the church at Dubrovitsy at the very limits of transitional culture. The royal churches and residences swallowed up icons by the dozen and the Armoury's studios employed the best icon painters in the land. The tsar's theatre accelerated the importation of Western instruments and musical scores, previously virtually unknown. After the Time of Troubles many historical narratives appeared that retold real-life events and showed an interest in personalities, for example Avraamii Palitsyn's Skazanie of the Troubles and Katyrev-Rostovskii's Book of Chronicles.