Icons of the Annunciation Cathedral in Sol’vychegodsk According to the Archival Documents and the Church Inventories of the End of the 16th–19th centuries
Abstract
The article presents the results of a studying of icons of the Annunciation Cathedral in Sol’vychegodsk city. The Cathedral, built in the late 16th century, belonged to the famous Stroganov family. In the first quarter of the 19th century in the process of reconstructions and the sales of the liturgical utensils and icons, interior of the Cathedral has lost integrity. On the basis of the inventories of church property, the author of the article made an attempt to reconstruct the appearance of the interior of the Cathedral. The oldest church inventory of the end of the 16th century, and later inventories of the 19th century, were used for analysis. A comparison of texts inventories and information of the other archival documents made it possible to see the changes taking place in the Cathedral for three centuries, and to determine the extent of participation of several Stroganov generations in the formation of its decoration. The article has a number of the individual characteristics of the interior design program of the Annunciation Cathedral, considered some of the iconography of ancient icons, defines the place of icons in the main church and its aisles, now defunct. It studied in detail the reasons and the ways of moving Sol’vychegodsk icons in the 19th century.
Keywords:
Sol’vychegodsk, Annunciation Cathedral, icon, iconostasis, church inventory
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