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At his trial, Patriarch Nikon explained why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias

A six-winged seraph on the klobuk of Patriarch Nikon. Collection of the New Jerusalem Museum. When Patriarch Nikon was asked at his trial why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias, Nikon replied thus: "Black klobuks are worn by the Greek patriarchs, and I

Almaty · Faith · Cinema · Museums

Authentic 17th-century sakkos from the New Jerusalem Museum in a film shot in Alma-Ata

In Filming "Ivan the Terrible", Sergei Eisenstein Used Authentic Historical Costumes. The film was shot while Mosfilm was evacuated to Alma-Ata. At the same time the city was also sheltering, in evacuation, the collection of church textiles of the New Jerusalem Museum, the foremost assemblage of Russian

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Stenka Razin, a sculpture by Alexei Teneta, late 1920s

New Jerusalem Museum, exhibition "The Formula of Rus 17/20". From the collection of the State Historical Museum. Material: tinted plaster

Short red jacket with silver braiding, metal buttons and fur trim on a mannequin in a museum display case.

Coming Up · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Education

Item from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum at the “Becoming a Romanov” exhibition in Tsaritsyno

A Hussar Officer's Mentik of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, Made for Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich When He Was Two Months Old. From the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve; on view at Tsaritsyno, in the exhibition "Becoming a Romanov. Upbringing and Education in the

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The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery

The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery. Collection of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum

Icon of the Baptism: John the Forerunner lays a hand on Christ standing in the water, with three angels on the right and God the Father and the Holy Spirit above.

Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg

Icon “The Baptism” from a Festal Tier, Second Half of the 17th Century, in the Russian Museum

Happy Epiphany! Second half of the 17th century, icon “The Baptism of Christ” from the festal tier, Russian Museum collection

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Exhibition “Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde” at the Voznesensky Center on the Christian intelligentsia

For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.

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The Most Beautiful: The Russian Imperial Crown and the Imperial Crown of Austria

Archaeology · Museums · Heritage

Ancient Egyptian wig 3,900 years old in the British Museum collection

Can you imagine that this wig is 3,900 years old? This ancient Egyptian wig from the collection of the British Museum dates to the 12th Dynasty and was acquired in the nineteenth century. Naturally, the wig owes its superb state of preservation to restoration, so perhaps not every hair

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Crozier head with the Archangel Michael and the dragon, 1220s–1230s, Limoges

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A colossal diorite scarab beetle from the British Museum, a metre and a half long, symbolising the morning aspect of the solar deity

A wooden horse harnessed to a two-wheeled cart with a small figure seated under a black parasol.

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Wooden chariot and horse from China, dated to the 200s AD

Chinese wooden chariot with a wooden horse. 200s AD.