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.

News

02.04.2015

“Game of Thrones” will be shot in Kirillov?

“Several series of the seventh season of the popular series “Game of Thrones”, one of the most successful television projects in the fantasy genre, will be shot in the Vologda region. The production team will come to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery this summer and will spend some days there” - one of yesterday’s news on the website of the information agency “SeverInfo” began with these words.

Readers were certainly surprised at this report. To dispel all their doubts once and for all, they mentioned the press-service of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve as the source of this information. In particular, one of the museum employees was cited, “David Benioff, script writer and producer of the series, called us yesterday evening. He asked to arrange shooting in our monastery. The producer said that he had seen the monastery and Lake Siverskoye in the picture of his friend who had visited Kirillov in summer. He was amazed with its beauty and understood that he would like to shoot several series there. They will be about the battle of two fortresses. We can’t say anything else”.

This news was quickly spread in the social networking sites. The users’ reaction was quite opposite. Some of them expressed doubts regarding truth of the information; the others believed and joined one of two groups – those who were pleased and displeased.

However, we have to report that the above-mentioned news was an April Fools’ joke of the information agency “SeverInfo”. Negotiations about shooting of the series in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery are not carried on at present.

The series “Game of Thrones” is one of the largest big-budget projects of the modern American television and the most expensive one in the fantasy genre. It is an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels titled “A Song of Ice and Fire”. The audience could already see six seasons of the series. They also obtained recognition of Russian viewers.

Link to the news: “Several series of Games of Thrones will be shot in Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery”

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