03.11.2024
On November 2, the Transfiguration Cathedral in Tver opened an exhibition entitled “Christian Folk Culture in the USSR: the Vanishing Heritage”, dedicated to unique icons created during the Soviet era and restored by faculty of RSUH.
Soviet icons are a stunning phenomenon of folk art, demonstrating how talented craftsmen were able to create complex and richly decorated bricolage icons from scrap materials. The artists adapted pre-revolutionary technologies and simultaneously invented new approaches. The Exhibition was ceremonially opened by the Head of the Tver Metropolitanate, Metropolitan Ambrosius of Tver and Kashin. The participants of the opening ceremony were read the welcoming speech of Acting Rector Andrei Loginov was also read.
"I am extremely pleased that it was our Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and Modern Times that took on the responsible and necessary mission for society to save, study and popularize the religious and artistic traditions of the 20th century. This requires a lot of work and dedication, and I am sure that the results are an important step towards preserving and understanding our cultural heritage," said the letter.
The project is being implemented by a team of specialists from the Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and Modern Times of RSUH and Indrik Publishing Center with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, Mikhail Abramov Society for the Preservation and Popularization of Russian Culture, with the blessing of Metropolitan Ambrosius of Tver and Kashin and with the participation of the Tver and Kashin Diocese Charitable Foundation for the Restoration of Destroyed Shrines. The exhibition is taking place in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Tver and will be open until January 31, 2025.
Free admission.
