We offer you to take part in a quiz about the history of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery!
In the quiz there will be three rounds with 10 tasks: “The history of the monastery”, “The history of the town Kirillov”, “The museum’s history”. You can bring your answers to the Department of the scientific-educational work, phone +7(81757) 3-14-79 or send them by e-mail - admin@kirmuseum.ru. You also can send your answers to the address: Kirillov, Kirillo-Belozersky museum, Department of scientific-educational work. Please make a mark - "Quiz". The participant who will give the most correct and full answers to all the offered questions will be the winner. The questions of the quiz are published on the official site of the museum - www.kirmuseum.ru. It may be so, that several persons will be winners. In this case we will make a draw to hand the main prize. The results of the quiz will be published on the museum’s page in the newspaper "New life" and on our official site in December.
The questions of the first round:
1. The Kirillo-Belozersky monastery was founded in_______ . The monastery’s founder was____________. The day of memory of the founder is __________.
2. The first stone buildings appeared in the monastery in the end of the XV century. The first stone building was erected in ____________. The number of the monastery’s churches is _________ .
3. The churches of Archangel Gabriel and John the Baptist were built on the contribution of_____________________ in commemoration of the birth of the successor of the throne.
4. On the contribution of the sons of Ivan the Terrible the church______________ was built in the monastery.
5. In ________ the siege of the monastery by the Polish-Lithuanian troops began.
6. The tsar _____________________ gave for building of the walls and towers of the New town __________ rubles. The new line of the fortress was built in ___________.
7. The total length of the walls makes up to ________________. In a line of an old monastic wall The following towers were preserved in the line of the old monastic wall: _________________. The height of the walls of the New town is ____________. The highest tower of the “Great tsar’s fortress” is _______________, its height is ________________ .
8. From the end of the XV century the Kirillo - Belozersky monastery became the place of exile. In the XVII century the outstanding church figure – the patriarch __________________
was exiled to the monastery.
9. In ___________ the empress Catherine II issued a decree. According to it the monastic large village received a status of a town.
10. The Kirillo - Belozersky monastery was closed in ____________ .
