The Crows Have Arrived
Why has this modest painting attracted viewers for 150 years?
In 1870, Savrasov was criticized for having too few students and was deprived of his state apartment in Moscow. Upset, he took a six-month leave and left wit…
Excavation Site of Permian Vertebrates by V. P. Amalitsky
In 1898, while exploring Permian deposits along the rivers Sukhona and Northern Dvina, a rich collection of therapsid reptiles was found in sandy lenses near the village of Novinki. These fossils were remarkable for thei…
Bogoyavlensky Mstyora Men's Monastery
The first mention of the men's monastery in the settlement of Mstyora dates back to 1628-1629. It was located on land owned by the Romanov princes. In the 17th century, the Ivanovsky women's monastery with the churches o…
Epiphany Church of the Bogoyavlensky Mstera Men's Monastery
One of the main attractions of Mstera is the preserved Epiphany Church, built in 1687 during the reign of Tsarina Sophia. At that time, the Russian army, commanded by Prince V.V. Golitsyn, was undertaking the first Crime…
Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
Next to the Epiphany Church is a warm stone church dedicated to the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The exact date of its construction is unknown, as it is not mentioned in the land survey books of 1628-1630, in the …
Bell Tower of the Epiphany Monastery
The architectural ensemble of the monastery includes a bell tower located on the axis of the western entrance to the Epiphany Church. Originally, it was a tent-shaped structure, but in the mid-19th century, a new one was…
Chapel of Alexander Nevsky at the Bogoyavlensky Mstera Monastery
In 1887, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Bogoyavlensky Church, a chapel was built. It is small and cubic in shape, topped with a tent roof and a round drum with an onion dome. The facade of the chapel is divi…
Art Museum in Mstera
The museum was founded on October 5, 1919, by a commission headed by the famous artist and academic of painting Fyodor Alexandrovich Modorov, a native of Mstera, at the Mstera State Art and Craft Workshops.
In April 192…
Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in Mstyora
The Old Believer community in the Mstyora settlement was founded in 1849. The first church they built on the northern outskirts of the settlement appeared in 1852. It was a wooden Trinity church located in the Old Believ…
Church of John the Merciful in Mstera
The wooden church dedicated to Saint John the Merciful is first mentioned in the land books of 1628-1630. The 1630 book, compiled by Mikhail Trusov and deacon Fyodor Vitov, states that the ancestral estate of Prince Grig…
