The Rybinsk Museum Reserve has one of the richest Russian collections of Ancient Russian arts. The museum keeps around 500 icons, communion table crosses and other church accessories from aristocratic estates vacated after the revolution and also from shut down churches and monasteries flooded with the water of the Rybinsk water reservoir.
The exhibition displays icons of various time periods and schools that were brought by local gentry from pilgrimage sites: Moscow churches, Solovetsky and Yughsky monasteries, as well as icon from local painting workshops. Among the exhibits there are works by skillful Old Believer craftsmen from the city of Romanov-Borisoglebsk, now Tutayev. Romanov-Borisoglebsk icon painters, unlike others, did not imitate methods of West-European fine arts, but improved traditions of Ancient Russian iconography.
The exhibition displays icons of various time periods and schools that were brought by local gentry from pilgrimage sites: Moscow churches, Solovetsky and Yughsky monasteries, as well as icon from local painting workshops. Among the exhibits there are works by skillful Old Believer craftsmen from the city of Romanov-Borisoglebsk, now Tutayev. Romanov-Borisoglebsk icon painters, unlike others, did not imitate methods of West-European fine arts, but improved traditions of Ancient Russian iconography.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
