The shooting team of the television company “Greenwich Production” working on the cycle of documentaries “Seven Centuries of Sergius of Radonezh” at the commission of the TV channel “Podmoskovie” visited the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve yesterday.
The Vologda region was chosen for shooting not by chance – there are several monasteries founded by the disciples of the famous Russian saint there. Museums are located in some of them now, the others have been returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The film crew worked on the museum grounds, in the Assumption Cathedral and in the new historical exposition in the Refectory. Lyudmila Terebova, head of the Scientific Department, told about St. Kirill, his life and spiritual ties with St. Sergius of Radonezh. Besides, they shot in the functional Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery involving Father Superior Ignaty.
The TV workers also went to the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes that had been opened in the closed Ferapontov Monastery. During the shooting, they already visited the cloister founded by St. Ferapont – the Luzhetsky Ferapontov Monastery in Mozhaisk.
Irina Parshukova, director the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes, worked with the film crew in Ferapontovo. They shot on the museum grounds, in the Church of St. Martinian, in the Refectory and in the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral.
As a result of the shooting in the Kirillov district, we will be able to see a 30-minute film from the cycle “Seven Centuries of Sergius of Radonezh”. Participants of the television group plan to visit all places connected with the saint and to prepare material for 50 similar films.
