History and Culture: Exhibition "Monasteries and Monasticism" presented in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "Monasteries and Monasticism" will run until May 18, 2021, at the State Museum of the History of Religion (Saint-Petersburg).

The exhibition is devoted to the history of the establishment of monasteries and monasticism in Russian Orthodoxy, which is full of dramatic events. The exposition features more than 100 exhibits: paintings and graphic works depicting both famous and small Orthodox monasteries, icons with images of the founders of monastic communities, church books printed in the first monastery in Russia - the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as well as products of monastery's handicrafts and icon workshops, photographs of pilgrims.

The exhibition presents religious literature - various collections, death bills, patericons, both handwritten and printed.

The monasteries had wood carving, engraving, icon and other workshops. Both ordinary monks and famous icon painters worked here. Monks - the icon-painters, created the Stroganov and Godunov icon schools in the XVI century. Art workshops were in the Solovetsky, Antoniev-Siysky and Kholmogorsky monasteries, Pochaevskaya Lavra, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Diveevsky Monastery and others. The exhibition showcases icons created in the icon workshops of Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Seraphim-Ponyatayevsky Monastery, and Alexander Nevsky Lavra.