At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture an exhibition has opened that will become a new part of the permanent display: three halls have been given over to the restored frescoes of the 15th-century Trinity-Makaryev Monastery at Kalyazin, blown up and floode

At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture an exhibition has opened that will become a new part of the permanent display:
three halls have been given over to the restored frescoes of the 15th-century Trinity-Makaryev Monastery at Kalyazin, blown up and flooded in 1940 during the construction of the Uglich Reservoir. The frescoes were created by the masters who painted the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin in the 17th century. The tragic history of the architectural monument goes hand in hand with the professionalism and ingenuity of the scholars who rescued the frescoes on the eve of the monastery's destruction: in severe winter conditions a team from the museum of the Academy of Architecture removed the frescoes, quite literally freezing a gauze-and-flour exoskeleton onto them, and transferred them to a wooden base by the technique of the restorer Pavel Yukin. Some of the frescoes in the display have been restored at the Stroganov Academy; others are still awaiting restoration.