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.
24.03.2011
Dzhanna Tutundzhan died on 23 February 2011. She was a painter, a graphic artist, the honoured artist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and the people’s artist of Russia
Dzhanna was born in Moscow. After graduating from the Institute n.a. V. Surikov she went to Vologda, the native land of her husband, N. Baskakov.
During their tours in the Vologda region they bought a house on the bank of the Sukhona river. Since then the village Sergievskaya had become the source of her themes.
Dzhanna liked the northern nature, local people and the Vologda dialect very much. She wanted to reflect this dialect in pictures and began to write down her dialogs with “models”. They talked about life, family and labor. Two or three phrases described the life of a real person. The painter wrote parts of these dialogs in her pictures.
Dzhanna Tutundzhan’s exhibitions usually draw a large attendance.
