"Saved Frescoes of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozhsky Monastery" film to be screened at the Presidential library cinema club

September 12, 2018 at 15:00 the Presidential Library will host a cinema club, at the meeting of which the first part of the documentary "Saved Frescoes of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozhsky Monastery" will be introduced. The authors of the film are Oleg Fyodorov, the head of the excursion department of the Pskov State Museum-Reserve, and Taisiya Kruglova, the main keeper of the frescoes of the Transfiguration Cathedral. The film's director is Tatyana Dyakonova.

The film is covering the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozhsky Monastery, which is the oldest monument of Christian culture in the territory of Pskov. The cathedral was erected and decorated with frescos at the turn of 1130-1140s at the initiative of the Novgorod archbishop Nifont. One of Nifont's main goals was the Christian enlightenment of North-Western Russia. The cathedral paintings created by Byzantine masters have a unique iconographic composition, the highest artistic level and rare preservation. More than 80% of the painting of the XII century have been preserved on the walls. All this makes the cathedral of the Mirozhsky Monastery one of the most outstanding and most important in terms of studying the history of Orthodoxy of cultural monuments.

Specialists of the Pskov Museum-Reserve speak in film about the history of the cathedral, explain why it was erected precisely in this place. Oleg Fyodorov, the head of the excursion department of the Pskov Museum-Reserve, offers his own version of the "reading" of the temple. Taisiya Kruglova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Pskov State University, the main keeper of the frescoes of the Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral, gives an explanation of the compositional structure of the Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral and tells about the traditions guided by the temple customer, Archbishop Nifont.

Representatives of museum complexes and higher educational institutions of Pskov, St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Staraya Ladoga, Novgorod, Bryansk, Vologda, Pavlovsk and Gatchina are planning to take part in the event.

The meeting of the cinema club will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at the address: Senatskaya Square, 3. Please, confirm your participation by phone: (812) 305-16-35, +7 921 594-16-13 or by e-mail: smolina@prlib.ru, Elena Smolina.

Accreditation of media representatives is available until 14:00, September 11, 2018.

Applications for accreditation should be forward in the attached form with the note "Media accreditation" to e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru, Alexandra Khudyakova, the press-service of the Presidential Library, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob.: +7 981 788-28-08.

The letter should include the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers, name of the media.

Please, note, that to enter the Presidential Library you need to submit advance notice and show your passport: participants and guests of the event go through entrance № 1, media representatives go through entrance № 2.