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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21.02.2015

Theodore Stratelates is commemorated on February 21

The commemoration day of Great-Martyr Theodore Stratelates – the patron saint of the Orthodox warrior-host – is celebrated on February 21. A feat of arms for the good of the native country was considered to be the highest form of Christian service in the Orthodox countries. The first warriors-martyrs who suffered for their faith set an example of such service: Saints Boris and Gleb, Saint George, Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Saint John the Warrior, Saint Theodore Stratelates, Saint Alexander Nevsky.

You can find more information about the life of St. Theodore Stratelates in the article of O.V. Voronova, deputy director on preservation in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve, posted on our website: http://www.kirmuseum.ru/issue/article.php?ID=235072

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