Task № 1 of September 29

Задание № 1 от 29 сентября

In autumn 2015, the apartment in Vologda at 10 Oktyabrskaya Street where the writer Vasily Belov had lived since the late 1980s, got a status of the memorial flat and became a branch of the Kirillo-Belozersky Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve. Belov wrote the novels “The Year of a Major Breakdown”, “The Sixth Hour”, “A Story about One Village”, “Vologda’s Buktinas”, plenty of short stories, including “The Soul is Immortal” that became a visiting card of the writer, in this very flat. The museum became famous right after its opening – the name of Vasily Belov speaks for itself and attracts admirers of his creative activity. Olga Anfimova, head of the Memorial Flat of Vasily Belov, told about the first results and further prospects.

Dear friends, the Internet quiz about architecture, history and culture of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery and the neighbouring cloisters begins.

O.A. Sokolova is a fine art restorer of fresco and easel tempera painting of the highest qualification, an icon painter, an author of many copies-reconstructions of church frescoes and icons, a graphic artist, a member of the Union of Russian Artists, a member of the Russian Association of Restorers, a certificated expert of the RF Ministry of Culture in historical and cultural examination, a chairperson of the Vologda Branch of the Union of Russian Restorers. O.A. Sokolova has been cooperating with the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve since 1983. At the beginning of her career, the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral of the Ferapontov Monastery became the first object of her work. She participated in the study of Dionisy’s frescoes. As for the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Olga Sokolova examined the 19th-century painting and gilded the base columns in the Refectory with the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (1519), studied and restored the wall-painting in the porch of the Assumption Cathedral (1497).

Veterans of Kirillov went to see the autumn display in the People’s House on September 9. Over 350 works made by 46 artists whose creative activity is connected with our region are presented in the exhibition halls. “Autumn Exhibition” continues the art project “Art Field” held in the village of Dyakonovskaya in the outskirts of Ferapontovo.

The briefing with V.A. Osipovsky, head of the Department of Culture and Tourism in the Vologda Region, S.V. Usov, head of the Kirillov district, and A.Y. Kotov, Mayor of Kirillov, took place in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on September 6.

This display continues the art project “Art Field”. It is very popular with both local residents and tourists during several years.

Museum employees K.V. Gusarina, N.V. Petrova and M.K. Ivanova went to Kovarzino to take part in the celebrations marking the Day of the Village on August 20, 2016.

The Fifth Regional Reaadings “Past Fate of Mother Earth” were held in the Central District Library of Lipin Bor on August 19.