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.
21.02.2012
The twentieth anniversary of a pastoral ministry
On February 15, 2012 A. Mokievsky, the archpriest and the confessor of the Goritsky Resurrection convent, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his pastoral ministry. The celebration opened with a prayer. Then A. Mokievsky told about the main stages of his pastoral ministry. S. Usov, the Chief of the Kirillov district, congratulated the archpriest and made special mention of the educative activity of the Mokievskies in the Kirillov district. I. Smirnov, the assistant director of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, thanked the archpriest for his cooperation with the museum. E. Krutysheva and N. Plotnikov, the representatives of Severstal, congratulated Father Alexei too. Among guests there were the representatives of the Vologda spiritual and educational center “Northern Thebaid”, of the National Park “Russian North”, of Vologda and Cherepovets mass media, of the military history centre, doctors, icon painters and others.
Pupils of the Sunday school sang songs and recited poetry. Father Alexei’s children gave him the song composed by themselves.
The archpriest thanked everybody for congratulations.
Pupils of the Sunday school sang songs and recited poetry. Father Alexei’s children gave him the song composed by themselves.
The archpriest thanked everybody for congratulations.
