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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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29.05.2015

The display “Soul of the North in Pottery of Tatiana Chistyakova” was opened in the Vologda Regional Picture Gallery. It presents ceramics, paintings and drawings from the holdings of the gallery, the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Preserve, the Vologda State Museum-Preserve and the creative workshop of the artist Tatiana Chistyakova.


Local musician Viktor Kuznetsov performed the song “I Love You, Life” at the beginning of the opening ceremony of the exhibition. It reflected the carrier of Russia’s Honoured Artist Tatiana Chistyakova. Then her friends and colleagues had a chance to congratulate the master.


Addressing the audience, Mikhail Sharomazov, director of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve, noted that a part of the displayed works had been made in the village of Ferapontovo. He told the following about the artist herself, “I have been taking part in the opening ceremonies of Tatiana Chistyakova’s exhibitions not for the first time. Every time I see warmth and love in the eyes of those people who attend these events. She is more than a favourite artist. In her works, we can see our time and our world in which we developed and which we would leave to those who would be after us”.


The display “Soul of the North in Pottery of Tatiana Chistyakova” will be open till June 21.