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).
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