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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10.04.2014

Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve will become one of grounds of “Voices of History” Festival

The 12^th Theatrical Festival “Voices of History” will take place in the Vologda region from June 24 to July 2, 2014. This event was founded in 1991 as a show of performances staged by professional theatres and presented in the historical and architectural setting. The main stage of the festival that has become the landmark of the region is the area of the Vologda State Museum-Preserve.

Famous and new Russian theatres have participated in it within this time: the “P.N. Fomenko Workshop” Moscow theatre, the Nikitsky Gate Theatre, the Moscow Academic Mayakovsky Theatre, the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army, the Roman Viktyuk Theatre, the Lensoviet Academic Theatre, the Maly Drama Theatre, the Vakhtangov Theatre, the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, the Novgorod Academic Drama Theatre named after F.M. Dostoevsky, the Youth Theatre named after Mustai Karim, the Komi-Permyak National Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky, the theatre-studio “SounDrama”, and theatres of the near abroad and far abroad countries - Ukraine, Belarus, Italy, Greece, the USA, and Poland.

It has become known recently that the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve will become of the venues for the festival. According to preliminary information, it is planned to present two performances in Kirillov.

Photo: cultinfo.ru

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