Virtual exhibitions
The exhibition of Romana Cielątkowska, Professor of Architecture in Gdansk University of Technology, under the title “Polish Wooden Heritage” was open in the northern parvis of the Refectory of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from July 17 to the middle of August 2010.
The exhibition presented: the most ancient wooden settlement in Biskupin included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, wooden churches in Lesser Poland, the Protestant churches of the 17th century in Jawor and Świdnica; city houses, churches, chapels, mosques, Evangelical churches, buildings of hydropathic establishments, the Zakopane style, the archetype of the Polish manor (which is reconstructed using different techniques and materials up to now), painted wooden architecture, unique wooden structures (bridges, cooling towers), the medieval Norwegian church.
Mikhail Vasilievich Kopiyov is a popular artist. He has a lot of good-minded and grateful admirers. Eminent researches-culture experts, professional art critics, journalists of the Russian capital, the province and far-abroad countries write about him. Some of the critics define his creative method as “Fantastic Realism”, the others call him a Neo-Romantic and an idealist, but everybody concurs that Kopiyov is an artist that appreciates time and reacts to its problems keenly, he is a philosopher, an intellectual and an aesthete.
The exhibition titled “The Cat’s House” was opened in the Guard-rooms of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on September 20, 2010, on the occasion of the anniversary of Olga Viktorovna Voronova, deputy director of preservation work. It was open from September 2010 till May 2011.
The exhibition of church art works from the private collection of Olga and Alexander Ilyins was open in two halls on the ground floor of the Father Superior’s House from January to October 2011.
The exhibition “Drawings of Dzhanna Tutundzhan” was open in the conference hall of the museum from April to August 2011.
The selling exhibition “Glass of Yulia Kruteeva” was open in the Guard-rooms of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from May to August 2011. It presented articles made in the glass fusing technique.
The exhibition titled “Military Valour of Centuries” was open in the Vologda Tower from June to October 2011.
The exhibition “This Dark-Cherry Shawl” was open in three halls of the Cook-House of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from July to September 2011. It presented about 100 kerchiefs and shawls of the 19th – early 20th century from the collections of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve and the Museum-Reserve “Rostov Kremlin”. It is a joint project of two museums – a part of the collection was displayed at the exhibition with the same title which was held in the Museum-Reserve “Rostov Kremlin” (in the halls of the Red Chamber) from December 30, 2010, till late March 2011.
The exhibition “Invaluable Evidence” (graduation documents of the late 19th – early 20th centuries from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve) was open in the Museum of town and district history from September to December 2011.
In all, 41 documents were displayed. The material was divided into three subjects: documents of graduation from educational institutions of Kirillov (1912-1924), documents of graduation from educational institutions of the Kirillov district (1882-1921) and documents of graduation from educational institutions located outside the Kirillov district (1874-1929).
The exhibition “Kirillo-Belozersky siege” was open in memory of Sergey Udod from November to December 2011. It featured things, clothing, arms and decorations from the private collections of re-enactors who knew Sergey very well and created our present together with him. A sword with notches got in the feats of arms, a worn in travels raincoat with silver fasteners, elegant decorations of fashionable women of the Middle Ages. This display gave food for thought and reminded of our glorious centuries-old history.
The exhibition about the creative work of Nikolai Rubtsov presented books, photographs, bookplates, drawings and paintings, memorable medals, sculptures, documents and business letters, things which belonged to the poet, friends’ letters and a lot of others from the collection of Sergey Alexandrovich Dmitriev.
The display was open in the Guard-rooms of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from September 27, 2011, to March 22, 2012.
The exhibition of the ceramic artists T.A. Chistyakova and A.E. Sokolov titled “This wonderful world of ceramics” was open in the Guard-rooms of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve from April to May 2012.
Ship modeler Sergey Vladimirovich Lushkin was born in Cherepovets in May 1953. He graduated from the Leninsky Komsomol Higher Naval School for Submarine Navigation in 1975 and completed the Higher Officers Courses in 1980. He served on the submarines of the Pacific Fleet. In 1992, after he was transferred to the reserve, he was keen on the history of the Russian shipbuilding of the 16th – first half of the 18th century. As a result, he began to construct ship models himself. The exhibition “Models of ships of the 16th-18th centuries from the collection of S.V. Lushkin” was open in the Refectory.
The eternal teacher of a man is the nature, the temple of his spiritual values. The landscape in all its diversity contains artistic and cultural, spiritual and moral energy.
The landscape has been the main painting genre of Vologda within many years of its development taking into account the number of created works. Almost all artists constantly paint landscapes. It is their favourite and popular genre where they continue the best traditions of the Russian realistic art inheriting the traditions of the Russian painting of the 19th – early 20th century.
The exhibition was open in the conference-hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve.
The exhibition titled “Colours of Love and Memory” marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of Boris Ivanovich Gorbunov (1922-1989) was open in the conference-hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve.
It presented 26 works of the artist painted in different years.
2012 marked the 400th anniversary of the successful defence of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery during the Polish and Lithuanian invasion. Employees of the development department of the museum organized a contest of children’s drawing titled “How the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Withstood the Polish-Lithuanian Siege...” to attract attention of kids and youth to the history of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, to bring up children to love their country and to promote their creative activity.
The exhibition “Fates Seared by the War” was open in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve in May 2012.
Exhibitions of the cycle “From the Time of Troubles till Schism” telling about the history of the monastery in the 17th century were presented on the ground floor of the House of Father Superior in the summer season of 2012.
The photo display “Birds of the National Park “Russian North” was open in the conference hall of the museum in October 2012.
The exhibition of the artist V.N. Sachkov “A Nice Corner of Russia” was open in the conference-hall of the museum from June to July 2012.
