Exhibition 'Old Russian Carved Wood, 14th-17th centuries'

About exhibition

The exhibition is located in a small hall on the second floor of the former Prisutstvennye Mesta building in the Novgorod Kremlin. It comprises 14 artifacts from the 14th-17th centuries: monumental commemorative and votive crosses, the royal doors, and the carved icon 'Our Lady of the Sign'. The oldest exhibit in the display is the famous Lyudogoshchensky Cross, made, according to its carved inscription, in 1359 by the Novgorod master Yakov Fedosov at the commission of the residents of Lyudogoshcha Street. Among the outstanding works of Novgorod carvers are an oak cross decorated with cypress plaques depicting feast scenes, and two monumental pieces: the so-called cross of St. Savva of Vishera from the turn of the 15th-16th centuries and a cross from the Voskresensky Monastery at Krasnoe Pole dating to the first half of the 16th century. Old Russian wooden sculpture is represented by an image of St. Nicholas of Mozhaysk from the turn of the 15th-16th centuries and by the monumental figure of the martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa from the mid-16th century — one of the most venerated saints in Novgorod.