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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.
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.
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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01.07.2014

The exhibition “Black and White Moments of Vladimir Tarasovsky” is open in the parvis of the Refectory of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. It presents 50 works of the photo artist made in the 1960s – 1990s. Visitors can see them in the museum till late July.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Tarasovsky is a member of the Union of Photo Artists, a diploma winner of the photo contest “Motherland”. He is a past master in large-size black-and-white photography. His works are an important part of many temporary and permanent exhibitions of the Vologda State Museum-Preserve and the museums of the region.

Vladimir Tarasovsky took part in plenty of expeditions of the Vologda State Museum-Preserve, made current newsreel shooting. His pictures were used for publication of many booklets, catalogues, anthologies, books, posters not only in Russia, but also in Hungary, Finland and Holland.

His black and white moments are like a miracle in the epoch of colour photography. He recorded the time that became the history and preserved it for descendants. And the most important is that the rich spiritual world of the photo master and the breadth of his creative activity are reflected in his works.

He is a participant of many displays, including his one-main exhibitions in Vologda, Kirillov, Moscow and Hungary.