The Museum of Christian Culture is updating its exposition. Rare images of Nicholas the Wonderworker became available to visitors

The Museum of Christian Culture expands and supplements the collection with new unique exhibits. The exposition of the hall of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, one of the most revered saints in the Christian world, has been updated. Now visitors can see a rare image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Velikoretsky with eight hallmarks of his life, created by the masters of Central Russia in the 16th century, as well as two valuable monuments: the icon "St. with the image of a saint (first third of the 17th century).

Saint Nicholas the Pleasant, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nicholas of Mozhaysky, Zaraisky, Wet, Summer, Spring - all these are the names or names of images of one saint, equally revered in all Christian countries. “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The Rule of Faith and the Image of Meekness” is a room in the Museum of Christian Culture, which presents exhibits that help reveal the history of the emergence of his many images and understand why Nicholas became so popular all over the world.

Viewers can see the icon of the Saint with a sword and hail, better known as Nikola Mozhaisky. According to legend, during the siege of Mozhaisk, the inhabitants of the city turned to the saint with a prayer for help, and he appeared in the sky with a sword in his hands, and the enemy retreated. Or the icon "Nikola the Wounded" - a list from a photograph, which depicted the image of St. Nicholas, located on the Nikolsky Gates of the Moscow Kremlin. In the exposition below it, visitors see a photograph of Alexander Kolchak. Why? After the shelling by the Bolsheviks in 1917, the original image was damaged, but the face of the saint was not touched, which was perceived as a real miracle! The famous White Guard admiral received one of the icons as a gift and never parted with it. In addition to icons, visitors can see valuable items of church utensils and vessels from the Italian city of Bari,

At the Museum, the audience gets acquainted with interesting historical facts and re-awares for themselves the most important events of the past, not only through the prism of the artistic images of Nicholas the Wonderworker, but also other works of religious art from different regions of Russia and Europe. Thanks to innovative technologies (touch-tables, sound accompaniment), “free access” to exhibits without barriers or glass, as well as a convenient and understandable location of the halls, viewing the expositions is possible both independently and as a tour.

In 2022, the museum launched a new excursion program - "The Beauty of the Russian Icon", which reveals the features of icon painting. How to correctly “read” an icon, what do certain colors and signs mean, what is reverse perspective, and what is common between this ancient craft and avant-garde painting? The answers to these other questions help to better understand the history of art.

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