January 29, 2020 What Is a Measure Icon and What Is It for? Search engines fetch a wide array of links to icon painting workshops specializing in measure icons, as well as links to articles popularizing these…
January 23, 2020 Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Nesterov was not a monumentalist by the nature of his talent, but rather a lyricist. For almost twenty years of his creative biography,…
January 22, 2020 Two Episodes of Nonviolent Religiosity When God reveals Himself to us and when we meet Him, we are very eager to share this discovery with our loved ones. Sometimes…
January 16, 2020 Frescoes of the Holy Transfiguration Church Few people know that there is only one historical site on the territory of modern Belarus where 12th-century frescoes have been preserved: the Transfiguration…
January 14, 2020 Saint Cornelius Krypetsky Born half-blind, Luke, the fifth child in the family of Mikhei and Vassa Polyakov, was endowed with a special gift of foresight and a…
January 12, 2020 Victor Vasnetsov Victor Vasnetsov’s artistic career is impressive: he painted pictures, illustrated books, decorated churches, created architectural sketches (for example, he drew a sketch of the…
January 1, 2020 Dionisius the Wise My exposure to Russian icon painting began with the works and the name of Dionisius. A friend of mine has an amazing book-album titled…
December 27, 2019 Our Convent Is Meeting a Dear Guest – Archbishop Michael (Donskov) At the invitation of Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok, our convent’s spiritual father, we have Archbishop Michael (Donskov), former Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe as…
December 26, 2019 Highlights of The Year 2019: We Did It Together! When a calendar year moves towards its end, it is a good idea to review it. By the grace of God and thanks to…
December 25, 2019 Andrei Rublev There is an opinion – I do not remember who expressed it – that people in the 15th century had such a thirst and…
December 19, 2019 Theophanes the Greek The development of Russian culture in the Middle Ages is characterized by the active development of church architecture. Newly built temples had to be…
December 18, 2019 The Mystery of Vestments on the Icons of the Savior Iconography is a unique phenomenon in medieval art that carries one’s consciousness away into the spiritual world. Everything matters: not only the image itself…
