“The murals of the St. George’s Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery” movie will be screened and discussed in the Presidential Library Cinema Club

The next in turn meeting of the Presidential Library Cinema Club, which is being held within a framework of traditionally celebrated in late August Day of Russian Cinema, will take place on August 30, 2017, at 3 pm. In the program s screening and discussion of a documentary by Tatyana Dyakonova “The murals of St. George’s Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery.” Director General of the Novgorod State National Park and Museum Natalia Grigoryeva, the experts from the Russian Institute of the History of Arts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, heads of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad and Novgorod oblasts museums and archives will attend the meeting.

The second movie of a four-series cycle about the murals in the temples of Veliky Novgorod tells about Yuriev Monastery, which is located a few kilometers from Veliky Novgorod. A monument of ancient Russian architecture of the XII century, stately St. George's Cathedral rises behind the monastery walls. Archaeological excavations are carried out inside this cathedral, giving a rich material to historians and philologists and letting them study the Old Russian language and writing.

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD in Philology Alexey Alexeyevich Gippius tells on camera about the inscriptions and drawings, which were found on the walls of the staircase tower and annalistic texts, scrawled on the temple’s plaster. Many inscriptions demonstrate the high literacy of the Novgorod residents and applicable as a chronicle source.

Annalistic texts on the walls of the St. George’s Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery have nothing in common with the foremost Novgorod chronicle, since it was imperious, that means episcopal. The “Yurievsky” script contains some additions to the text of the official Novgorod Episcopal Chronicle, apparently made exactly in the Yuriev Monastery, and provides us with completely new information about the events of those years.

The documentary is destined to a wide audience interested in the history of Russia.

The meeting of the cinema club will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at 3 Senate Square, St. Petersburg, Russia 190000.

Please, confirm your presence over the phone: +7 (812) 305 1635; + 7 921 594 1613 or e-mail Elena Viktorovna Smolina at smolina@prlib.ru.

Media representatives’ accreditation is open until 2 pm on August 29, 2017.

Please, submit your applications for accreditation in the attached form over email to Maria Smirnova smirnovamk@prlib.ru, the Press Service of the Presidential Library, phone (812) 305 1621 ext. 233, mobile +7 (981) 894 4770.

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