Count Pierre Cheremetieff, representative of descendants of Russian nobility abroad, visited Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve

Count Pierre Cheremetieff, direct descendant of the Rurik dynasty, gentle aristocrat and great patron of arts, learnt about the history and architecture of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, visited the Assumption Cathedral and its northern and western porches. The walls of the northern parvis of this church were decorated with frescoes in 1650 thanks to the donation and under the will of Fyodor Ivanovich Sheremetev because representatives of this family chose the porch of the cathedral in Kirillov as their family burial vault.

Count Pierre Cheremetieff made a tour of the permanent exhibition “History of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Affiliated and Adjacent Cloisters” in the Refectory, saw the unique historical and art works of Russian culture that had been donated to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery by F.I. Sheremetev and Y.N. Odoevsky: the shroud “Entombment” (1645), coverings for the shrine of St. Kirill Belozersky (17th century) and the cover of the shrine of St. Kirill Belozersky (17th century, displayed on the electronic monitor).

Count Pierre Cheremetieff signed the Distinguished Visitors’ Book, “To come to the Kirillov land is an amazing event in my life! I have returned to those places that witnessed the history of my family and my relatives of the Romanovs who played a great role in the life of our Motherland. I am very excited because I have visited this holy land several centuries later”.