Virtual exhibitions
On May 20, 2008, we marked the 500th anniversary of the death of the Great Russian saint Nil Sorsky, monk of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, founder of skete communities (hermitages) in Russia. The regional exhibition “St. Nil Sorsky and the Hermitage Founded by him” was opened in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on May 18, on the occasion of this significant date. It was housed in the recently restored two stories of the bell tower – the architectural monument of the 18th century.
The exhibition “We Decorated the New Year’s Tree” was open in the Refectory from December 19, 2009, till February 2010.
New Year’s tree decorations were displayed in chronological order and according to the subjects.
Artificial New Year’s trees adorned with baubles and decorations of different decades were exhibited in high glass showcases. For instance, there were glass beads and ornaments made of bugles on the New Year’s tree of the 1950s. As for the tree of the 1970-1980s, it was embellished with tinsel and paper streamers. The exhibition also included photographs of New Year shows and postcards of different years. A workshop of Father Frost was presented in the second hall. A fur coat of the New Year’s wizard was on the armchair made of willow rods. Children’s books could be seen on the shelves. There was a sack with presents. Visitors could read the books, create a hand-made article, and paint a New Year’s card.
The exhibition titled “How the Smith of Kirillov Shod the Flea with Horseshoes” was open in the conference hall of the museum from April to June 2008. It presented photographs and forged articles made by the Kirillov’s smith Nikolay Mitin.
Nikolay Valentinovich Mitin told about smithcraft, his work and the flea that he had shod with horseshoes at the presentation.
The exhibition marking the 90th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (usually known as Komsomol) was open in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from October to December 2008.
This exhibition was devoted to the second half of the 20th century. About one hundred various clocks were displayed in the entrance hall. They showed real time moving away those still recognizable years. Every decade of the Soviet era had its own symbols and peculiarities.
The exhibition was open in the conference hall of the museum from February to May 2009.
The exhibition titled “Heirs of Pomor Craftsmen” which displayed works of pupils and teachers of the Archangelsk children’s school of folk crafts was open in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from March to April 2009.
The exhibition “Orders and Medals from the Collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve” was open in the House of Father Superior from May 2009 till June 2010. It presented war decorations and labour awards of Kirillov’s residents kept in the museum holdings.
This display was timed to the anniversary of the Soviet people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The exhibition was opened on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the museum foundation.
The exhibition “Rainbow on the Floor” was opened in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve at the beginning of the tourist season 2009. It presented over 80 doormats and six woven tapestries made by talented folk craftsmen. All of them belong to the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. The exhibition was open till May 2011.
The exhibition “Doll Round Dance” was open in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from May to September 2009. It presented oeuvres of three talented folk art masters of Cherepovets, participants of many exhibitions, festivals, contests and fairs: People’s Masters of Russia Marina Nikolaevna Vasileva, Maya Anatolievna Sysoyeva, and Irina Vladimirovna Luzhinskaya.
The exhibition of Archbishop of Vologda and Veliky Ustiug Maximilian titled “Heart of the Northern Thebaid” was open in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from June 22 till September 2009. Director of the museum Galina Ivanova, Archbishop Maximilian, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Kirill, head of the Kirillov District Administration Vladimir Shachin, Father Superior of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery Ignaty (Molchanov), museum employees and many other people attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition. In all, there were 165 people there.
The photo display titled “Revival of the Convent” on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the cloister revival in the Goritsy Convent of the Resurrection was open in the conference hall of the museum from June to August 2009.
N.V. Baskakov is a successor to art traditions of the Moscow painting school of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. He brought up a whole galaxy of talented artists. Working in the art studio of the Cultural Centre of the Railwaymen in Vologda, he taught by personal example. 12 out of 20 Baskakov’s pupils are professional artists. Among them there are Honoured Artists of Russia: Georgy Kalinin who created his own painting system; Natalya Vyatkina actively working in Moscow in the sphere of monumental, chamber and decorative sculpture; Tatiana Chistyakova. Yevgeny Gusev, Yuri Eltsov, Nikolay Morozov and Valentin Zernov have become wonderful lyric landscape painters. Vladimir Ivanov is a graphic artist.
The exhibition was open from December 2009 to December 2010.
On the occasion of his 85th birthday.
The exhibition of graphic arts from the collection of S.G. Ivensky had a look of its own. First of all, it was of interest from the cognitive point of view: it presented a rather rare kind of prints – artistic bookplates, also known as ex-libris - to visitors of the younger generation. These were works of famous and obscure artists of different generations and countries of the 20th century. Their miniature oeuvres were made using the technique of printed engraving on cooper, wood, linoleum and plastic.
The exhibition was open in the Guard-rooms of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from December 2009 to December 2010.
The Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve has a large collection of postcards of the early 20th century.
The exhibition “Folk Costume of a Woman from Veliky Ustiug from the Collection of the Veliky Ustiug Museum-Reserve” was open in Refectory from December 2009 to February 2010.
The exhibition presenting the collection of Easter postcards was open in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from March to April 2010.
The exhibition “Needlework” was open in the conference hall of the museum from May to November 2010. It presented 68 works made by Marina Azizyan in the mixed technique with the use of fabric, application, embroidery, glass beads, stones, rhinestones and other materials.
The exhibition of Old Russian painting and folk art from the private collection of Alexander Gulko was open in the Refectory of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from May 2010 till October 2011.
2010 marked the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. By tradition, in the jubilee years, the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve holds exhibitions about local residents who defended the Motherland. This year wasn’t an exception.
The display titled “Forever in People’s Memory” (on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Victory Day) was open from May 7, 2010, till December 2010.
