The film crew of the television studio “United Media Group” worked in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on December 9. This company has started to shoot a documentary about St. Sergy Radonezhsky at the commission of Russia-1, TV channel of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, recently. It is based on the story about the life of the famous Russian saint that also contains comment of representatives of the clergy and scholars.
“During the shooting, we became interested in a wooden church built by St. Sergy Radonezhsky and his brother Stephan. We decided to learn how it looked originally. As it turned out suddenly, the church had different appearance in comparison with the illustrations. As the draft – reconstruction of its initial look – was made by Alexander Popov, head of the Restoration Centre in Kirillov, we contacted him. It turned out that his own researches of the Church of the Deposition of the Virgin’s Robe from the Borodava village served as a basis for such conclusions. This information aroused much interest and we came to Kirillov to make video of this church constructed without a single nail”, explained film director Alexander Yevsyukov.
Upon arriving in Kirillov, the film crew visited the Restoration Centre and met Alexander Popov. He headed the restoration of the Church of the Deposition of the Virgin’s Robe several years ago. Then they worked in the museum itself making video of the church exterior and interior.
