History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.

Monk’s cell

At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.

Folk art of the Belozersk district

Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.

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14.02.2013

Exhibition of drawings by Moscow’s artist Matvey Shabaev is due to be opened in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes

The Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes presents the exhibition of drawings created by the Moscow’s artist Matvey Shabaev.

Matvey Shabaev was born in Vologda in 1968. He entered the Yaroslavl Art Vocational School in 1983. Having graduated from it and having served in the army, he entered the Surikov State Academic Art Institute in Moscow and studied at the Graphic Art Department, in the Easel Painting Workshop of Professors N. Ponomarev, B. Uspensky and A. Yakushin. On graduating from the institute in 1997, he started to train in the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts headed by Alexei Shmarinov, Full Member of the RAA.

Matvey Shabaev has been teaching drawing in the Surikov State Academic Art Institute in Moscow since 2000.

He is a participant of academic exhibitions and displays organized by higher education institutions, the Union of Russian Artists and the Moscow Union of Artists. He takes up drawing, monumental painting and icon painting. He lives and works in Moscow.

The exhibition of Matvey Shabaev will be open from March 1 to April 11.

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The project is implemented within the programme of support for fine arts museums in the provinces of Russia "Museums of the Russian North" supported by "Severstal" PLC and "CAF" (Charities Aid Foundation)