Permanent exhibition 'Old Russian Art'

About exhibition

The permanent exhibition features around one hundred works of northern icon painting and carved wooden sculpture from the 14th–18th centuries, as well as decorative and applied arts from the collection of the Museum Association 'Artistic Culture of the Russian North'. Among them are unique icons: 'The Holy Mandylion. Christ in the Tomb' (14th century), 'John Chrysostom' (second half of the 15th century), a Deesis composition from the turn of the 15th–16th centuries; carved sculptures 'The Miracle of Saint George and the Serpent' and 'Great Martyr Paraskeva' (17th century), and many others. These works are monuments to the distinctive culture of the Russian North.