Winners of Internet quiz in Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve will be awarded on August 31!

The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve held the Internet quiz about architecture, history and culture of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery and the neighbouring cloisters in August. Its results were summed up the other day. Here you can read the correct answers:

1. The secular name of the monastery founder was Kosma.

2. The Virgin appeared to St. Kirill Belozersky at the Simonov Monastery.

3. St. Kirill was 87 years old when his lifetime portrait was painted.

4. 53 monks lived in the monastery when St. Kirill died.

5. St. Sergius Radonezhsky wasn’t a disciple of St. Kirill.

6. The first stone church in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery was dedicated to the Dormition (Assumption) of the Virgin.

7. Grand Prince Ivan III didn’t visit the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.

8. The west parvis of the Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery became the family burial vault of the Sheremetevs.

9. Russian commander Mikhail Vorotynsky buried in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is depicted at the Millennium of Russia Monument in Novgorod.

10. Patriarch Nikon was exiled to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.

11. The Polish-Lithuanian invaders make the first assault upon the monastery in December 1612.  

12. Tsar Alexei Romanov gave money for the construction of the walls and towers of the New Town.

13. 50 thousand rubles were spent to erect the New Town.

14. The Kazan Tower wasn’t built at the corner of the fortifications of the New Town.

15. The Malt House was used to make kvass in the monastery.

16. A cellarer’s position in the monastery can be defined as a supply manager in modern language.

17. Peter I confiscated a part of the monastery bells to cast new cannons.

18. There were 26 bells at the Bell-Tower in the 18th century.

19. Repair and restoration work in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery began in 1918.

20. The monastic life in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery was revived in 1997.

21. Grand Prince Basil III with his second wife Elena Glinskaya came to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery to pray for the birth of an heir. Their son – future tsar Ivan the Terrible – was born in 1530. To commemorate this event, Basil III donated 1000 rubles to the monastery for construction of two churches - the Church of Archangel Gabriel and the Church of St. John the Baptist.

22. The Church of St. Vladimir and the Church of Epiphanius were built as burial places of two noble and influential Russian families of the 16th century – the Vorotynskys and the Telyatevskys. A.A. Telyatevsky defeated the government forces under the command of I.M. Vorotynsky near Tula in October 1607. Representatives of these two families constantly rivaled each other in honour given by the tsar. Ironically, the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery became the burial vault of the members of both noble families and the churches where they were buried are located next to each other.

23. The murals in the Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral were painted by Kostroma’s master Lyubim Ageev and his team in 1641 thanks to the donations of tsar’s clerk Nikifor Shipulin.

24. Boris Morozov was a tutor of Tsar Alexei Romanov in his time. Later he was harboured in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery after the Salt Riot. Upon Morozov’s return to Moscow, the monastery got a powerful patron and a new status in 1649: its Father Superior was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite.

25. Monk-priest Antony (A.A. Alexandrov) tried to establish a museum within the walls of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in 1906-1908. But his initiative wasn’t endorsed by the monastery authorities.

According to the regulations of the quiz, its winners will be given free season tickets (for a year, half a year and a quarter of a year respectively – beginning from the date of the first visit) for all permanent and temporary exhibitions and events in the museum-reserve. They will be awarded in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on August 31 at 17:00!

We won’t keep you waiting and will name the winners:

1st place – Sergey Fomichyov – 120 points

2nd place – Tamara Pavlovna – 117 points

3rd place – Alexander Ivanovich – 115 points

4th place – Anna Nikolaevna – 109 points

5th place – Alyona Nikolaevna – 104 points

6th place – Olga Leonidovna – 104 points

7th place – Vladislav Yurievich – 92 points

8th place – Alevtina Selivanova – 84 points

An award ceremony will take place in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve at 17:00.