History and culture: The exhibition project “Nevyansk Miracle” in Kolomenskoye

December 5, 2014 in the halls of Sytny yard, located in the historical territory of Kolomenskoye (Moscow), opened to the public a large-scale exhibition project "Nevyansk Miracle", with which the Moscow State Museum-Reserve completes the Year of Culture in Russia. The museum invited to participate in the project of four largest museums in the Ural region: the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum, the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, the Nevyansk State Historical and Architectural Museum, the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to items from the collections of museums the exhibition includes icons from the private collection of V. V. Maslakov.  

The selection of this trend of iconography and the concept "Nevyansk icon" began to form relatively recently, at the end of the XIX century. However, the special nature of church painting of the Urals emerged much earlier.

There are genuine masterpieces among the presented works in the halls of Nevyansk iconography. An example is a fragment of the iconostasis with the image of the Archangel Michael in the chapel of the manor of the Kharitonov-Rastorguev, which was performed at the beginning of the XIX century in the famous workshop of Bogatyriovs. The icons almost all came from the walls of the most famous icon-painting workshops of the Urals, they have dates and autographs of painters, which is one of the hallmarks of the Ural icons. The exhibition adequately discloses the Nevyansk art and provides new material for further study of the phenomenon of "Nevyansk icon".  

The exhibition is complemented by interesting ethnographic material from the Nevyansk Museum that reflects the lifestyle of the Ural Old Believers. In this section, you can see prevailed in this environment different situations costumes - holiday, wedding, funeral, as well as household items and religious objects.

An important role in the exhibition belongs to graphic material, including portraits of Ural Old Believers and landscapes by A. K. Denisov-Uralsky, not only a talented painter but also a prominent jeweler and stone-cutter.

The exhibition will run until March 1, 2015.