World history and culture: Exhibition “Reverse Perspective: the objective world of Eastern and Western Christianity of the mid XIX-XX centuries” in Suzdal

On the territory of the museum complex of Saint Euthymius Monastery (the  Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve) until January 26, 2013 runs the exhibition "Reverse Perspective: the objective world of Eastern and Western Christianity of the mid XIX-XX centuries", organized by the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, with the support Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation together with the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Apostolic Nunciature (Vatican diplomatic mission) in the Russian Federation.

The exhibits collected for participation in the exhibition "Reverse Perspective" represent the history of the Orthodox and Catholic churches in the last hundred years. The exhibition presents the vestments and utensils from the collections of the Apostolic Nunciature in the Russian Federation, the Church of the archaeological study of the Moscow Theological Academy, a Catholic parish church of St. Louis of France in Moscow, stock collections of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia and the Sergiev Posad State History and Art Museum-Reserve.

The exhibition's title "Reverse Perspective" is a pictorial allusion to the system, which is widely used in Europe and in Russia. Having come together with the Byzantine painters to Russia, a reverse perspective easily perceived by anyone, even without special education. It is seen in reverse perspective objects viewed at close range.