Answers to Internet quiz questions

October 18, 2016

QUESTIONS:

1. How many trading yards (metochions or embassy churches) did the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery have in the 17th century?

2. How many stone hearths were there in the Cook-House of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery?

3. Silver pendants in the shape of some parts of the human body are presented in the permanent exhibition on the ground floor of the House of the Father Superior in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. Explain the meaning of these articles.

ANSWERS:

1. The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery had 9 trading yards (metochions or embassy churches) in the 17th century: in Pskov, Dmitrov, Nizhny Novgorod, Uglich, the Kremlin, Kargopol, Beloozero and Rostov. The monastery metochions in Moscow and Vologda are especially remarkable.

2. There were 6 stone hearths in the Cook-House of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.

3. Silver pendants in the shape of some parts of the human body presented in the permanent exhibition on the ground floor of the House of the Father Superior in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve are votive offerings left in front of the icon of St. Pantaleon (from the Goritsy Convent) by people praying for healing or thanking for it. Among them there are two fragments in the shape of a half-bent leg, a pendant in the form of an ear, and a pendant in the shape of a female figure with arms folded across her chest.