Society and Church: The exhibition "From the Educator to the Saint" in Vladivostok

The exhibition "From the Educator to the Saint", dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the birth and the 40th anniversary of the canonization of Innokentiy Veniaminov, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, is running in the main building of the V. K. Arseniev Primorsky State Unified Museum (Vladivostok).

Metropolitan in his younger years nourished the peoples of Siberia, missionary in the Russian America and went down in history as a researcher and educator. The result of his scientific work was the work on the ethnography of the peoples of Alaska, as well as translations of Holy Scripture into the languages ​​of the Golds and the Tungus. It was Vladyka Innokenty, being bishop of Kamchatsky and Yakut, who blessed in 1861 the construction of the Assumption Church - the first church in Primorye.

The exhibition is a joint project of the Museum and the Primorsky Metropolis. It is organized with the support of the Society for the Study of the Amur Region: among the exhibits there are the works of Innokentiy Veniaminov of the mid-XIX century edition, kept in the book fund of the Society for the Study of the Amur region. Some of the items are provided by the Vladivostok Diocese. The illustrative material posted at the exhibition is the result of cooperation between the V. K. Arseniev Museum and the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local History.