Representatives of one of the most ancient Russian noble families – Prince Vladimir Kirillovich Golitsyn and his spouse Tatiana Vladimirovna – visited the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve and the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes last week. During the tour in the House of the Father Superior, the guests saw the endowments of Ivan Andreevich Golitsyn – two covers for church vessels presented to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in 1646.
At the end of the tour, Tatiana Golitsyna signed the Distinguished Visitors’ Book. According to the princely couple living in New York, they dreamt of coming to the Russian North for a long time. Their interest in the holy places is not accidental: Vladimir Kirillovich Golitsyn is the churchwarden of the Synodal Cathedral of the Virgin of the Sign (the Russian Orthodox Church abroad) for many years.
It is worth noting that it is not the first visit of the representatives of the Golitsyns to the Kirillov district. There is information that Elena Petrovna Golitsyna (nee Sheremeteva) visited the museum in 1927. She came to Kirillov with her husband - Prince Vladimir Mikhailovich Golitsyn – who was an artist. Elena Golitsyna wrote in the notes of the journey that they visited the Goritsy Convent where they received a warm welcome, saw restorer A.I. Anisimov who cleaned icons and went to the church,
Prince Sergey Mikhailovich Golitsyn, future writer who was 19 years old, visited Kirillov in 1928. He travelled along the Russian North together with his friend Andrey Kiselyov. Later Sergey Golitsyn wrote about the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in his memoirs: “We saw a wonderful city that was like a dream in the blue light of the white night. It was all blue – blue towers, blue walls and blue churches behind them. The city was located on the shore of the lake that was as pale as the sky. And therefore it seemed that it hanged in the air…”
