Exhibition "Shrines of the Kuban Land"

About exhibition

For many centuries Christianity exerted a primary influence on the political, social, and cultural life of Russian society. The exhibition explores the history of Orthodox churches in the Kuban, attitudes toward religion in the Soviet state, and the revival of Orthodoxy in the country at the end of the 20th century. On display for museum visitors are icons painted by Kuban iconographers, as well as those brought from other provinces of the Russian Empire. For the first time visitors will be able to see liturgical books; an icon of Saint George the Victorious from the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, built by the Cossacks immediately after their resettlement to the Kuban at the end of the 18th century; never-before-exhibited chromolithographs of monasteries and hermitages from the Kuban region dating to the early 20th century; and lithographs by the artist O. Gavrilov depicting churches and chapels built by the Cossacks in the Kuban in the 19th century.