Monument-museum: Church of the Assumption of the Virgin on Volotovo Field

About museum

In the village of Volotovo, located 4 km northeast of Veliky Novgorod, near the Moscow–Saint Petersburg highway, there stands a church built in 1352 by order of the Archbishop of Novgorod, Moses. The northern narthex and the western porch were erected shortly thereafter, and the interiors, as well as the narthexes and porches, were decorated with frescoes by order of Archbishop Alexei. Materials characteristic of 14th-century Novgorod monuments were used in the construction: Ilmen flagstone, shell limestone, boulders and large-format brick with a sandy surface. During World War II (the Great Patriotic War) the church was destroyed, but from 2001 to 2003 it was restored with funds from the German company Wintershall A.G. Today work on restoring the fresco compositions continues at the Center for the Restoration of Monumental Painting of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve. Some of the paintings were preserved on the walls and pillars inside the church and in the western porch and have been consolidated and restored.