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.
21.01.2013
Museum employees prepared a number of articles about the Great Patriotic War “70th anniversary of feat”
We often say the following phrase: “In Russia, there is not a single family left intact by the Great Patriotic War”. It is true. It is not for nothing that it was called the people’s war since its first days. In 2013, we will celebrate the 68th anniversary of victory in this war. But there are still millions of unknown pages of that terrible time. Nevertheless, we begin to learn something about our relatives, friends and those people who lived and worked in our region before the war thanks to the information which was inaccessible and unknown earlier.
Employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve prepared materials about our fellow-townsmen who had participated in several large military operations (and had been awarded for it). 70 years have passed since that time, therefore the cycle of articles is called “70th anniversary of feat”. The first article tells about the events which took place in January 1943 when the Leningrad and the Volkhov Fronts executed the military operation “Iskra”, which led to the break of the Siege of Leningrad.
