Exhibition "Church Art of the Northern Perm Region"

About exhibition

Exhibits presented in the display tell about family icons, icons made using rare materials and rare iconography, as well as icons dedicated to significant events in the history of the Russian state. This is the first part of the exhibition, and its conceptual center is the family. In the "Year of the Family" the museum considers it important to highlight family traditions in icon painting. The family is the spiritual and social center of life for the people of Cherdyn. The veneration and preservation of family traditions are demonstrated in objects of all types of church art; they are especially evident in commissioned church and domestic icons of saints bearing the same names as family members. For the first time for the general public the icon "Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia" will be presented, transferred to the museum for temporary exhibition from the private collection of Mikhail Korinenko. The icon is unique in that this copy of the miraculous icon was painted in Fedoseev's workshop in the village of Pokcha in 1882 from the original. On the lower margin of the icon there is an inscription: "True depiction, likeness and measure from the miraculous image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, located in the church in the village of Nyrob. Painted on April 15, 1882." At present the original icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is lost.