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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.

News

04.07.2014

Artists of the Vologda Drama Theatre will enter onto the scene of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on Sunday, July 6. They will present an interesting comedy based on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko. It is titled “Money. Craftiness. Love”. This play is included into the additional program “Echo of the Festival”. A ticket costs 300 rubles, pensioners are given discounts. The performance will begin at 19:00.

The 12th International Theatrical Festival “Voices of History” came to an end on July 2. Its closing ceremony was held on the summer stage of the Actors’ House in Vologda. According to the materials placed on the websites of the Vologda Oblast Government and cultinfo.ru, theatre-goers of the Vologda region could see 17 performances staged by 11 theatres of Vologda, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kirov, Magnitogorsk and Berezniki. They were presented in three cities - Vologda, Cherepovets and Kirillov – for the first time in the festival history. The actors performed on eight various theatre grounds, four of them were in the open air. More than 4000 tickets were sold for the plays.

O.A. Vasiliev, chairman of the organizing committee of the festival, Deputy Governor of the Vologda region, gave a letter of gratitude to the staff of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve for preparation and holding of the event.