Russian regions: The Kizhi Museum presents the new international exhibition project “Church architecture of the Onega region”

February 6, 2013 at the Lecture and exhibition complex of the Kizhi Museum (Petrozavodsk) opens the exhibition “Church architecture of the Onega region. The XX-XXI centuries. Photo view”.

The visual range of the exposition gives opportunity to learn about the survived till the XXI century monuments and stone church architecture of the Onega region and it tells about changes that have taken place in the form of chapels and churches.

The exhibition features more than 100 works by photographers of Kuopio (Finland) Erkki Olavi Pellikka and Puustinen Pentti Juhani.

Since 1996 they have started to take photographs in Karelia. During 13 years the objects of their attention were territories of the Belomorsk Karelia and the Veps Onega region. The results of the work were collections of slides and photo exhibitions, which were demonstrated in Karelia and Finland.

The exposition features pictures of 47 monuments of church architecture, located in the territory of modern Medvezhyegorsk and Kondopoga districts of the Republic of Karelia.

Works by Erkki Pellikka and Puustinen Juhani are presented at the exhibition in comparison with materials of 1942–1948 from the archive of Lars Peterson (finish researcher of medieval architecture of Finland, Scandinavia, Karelia and Byzantium, granted by him to the Kizhi museum in 1989-1990.

The exhibition also features reproductions of photographs with photos of the Onega region of 1920-1980 from the museum holdings. The exhibition is complemented with graphic and pictorial Onega landscapes by Vyacheslav Agapitov, writer, poet and ethnographer.