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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27.04.2015

Chief of Presidential Foreign Policy Directorate Alexander Manzhosin visited Kirillov

Alexander Manzhosin, chief of the Presidential Foreign Policy Directorate, came to Kirillov and Ferapontovo on Saturday, April 25. The delegation consisted of Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov Ignaty, D.V. Agafonov, head of the Department in the Presidential Foreign Policy Directorate, and S.V. Usov, head of the Kirillov district.

Interesting tours were conducted for the guests in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve and the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes. In Kirillov, they went to see the Assumption Cathedral, the Refectory, the area of the functional Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, and ascended the viewing platform of the Bell-tower. In Ferapontovo, the delegation visited the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral, the Church of St. Martinian, the gate churches and the Refectory.

Photo: website of the Vologda Metropole

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