History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.

Monk’s cell

At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.

Folk art of the Belozersk district

Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.

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23.06.2015

Museum will keep message for descendants

On the Day of Memory and Sorrow (on June 22), residents of Russia and the former Soviet Union commemorated the victims of the Great Patriotic War that had broken out 74 years ago. The war touched the life of millions of people. It entered every house taking away the most important - relatives and friends. The date of the beginning of the war especially tears at people’s hearts in 2015 when we celebrated the 70^th anniversary of the victory.

An event was held on the occasion of the Day of Memory and Sorrow near the Motherland Memorial in Kirillov yesterday. Members of the Youth Parliament of the Kirillov district read a message to the descendants written on behalf of local young people. It was destined for the generations that would celebrate the centenary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War in 2045.

In their message, the youth of Kirillov of 2015 revealed the motives that caused them to address fellow-townsmen of the future, “The Great Patriotic War ended 70 years ago. It was the war in which over 10 thousand residents of our district had fought, but only a third of them had returned home. Our generation was lucky to see the veterans – those people who had given the life to the whole country and to the whole world with their feats. These people had forged the victory! <…> We happened to live in a difficult epoch of changes, the period when some attempts to rewrite the history became so evident and open that they caused anxiety regarding comprehension of the significance of the Russian people in the Great Victory by the future generations”.

People will be able to see the full text of the message in 30 years – on reading it, the members of the Youth Parliament of the Kirillov district put into the “capsule of time” and deposited it for storage in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. According to the initiators and authors of the letter, the goals of this action are to strengthen the tie of generations and to commemorate the fellow-townsmen who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Photo: Youth Parliament of the Kirillov district,

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