The Svensky Monastery was founded by the first prince of Bryansk – Prince Roman of Bryansk (Roman the Old). According to the legend the prince suddenly began to lose his sight and sent messengers to Kiev for the Pechersk’s miraculous icon of the Theotokos (Mother of God), which was supposed to cure him. While the envoys were sailing along the Desna River, the image suddenly disappeared from their boat and turned out on the bank of the Svin River – where Roman Mikhailovich was at that moment. After that, as the legend has it, the prince ordered to build a monastery on that place. The icon was named Svensk-Pechersky and was kept in the monastery afterwards.
Doors of the Svensky Monastery of the Dormition
Creation period
16th century
Dimensions
280x108 cm
Technique
Expanded iron, hammer-work, rasping iron
Collection
Exhibition
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Doors of the Svensky Monastery of the Dormition
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The first temple in the Svensky Monastery was wooden. According to ancient legends the prince and his close boyars chopped and cut logs for the construction with their own hands. When the wooden church became dilapidated, a new Dormition Cathedral was created in its place. It became the first stone building in the Bryansk area. Construction began in 1561 and was completed around 1578. The one supervising the works was architect Gavriil Makov, who also built the White Trinity Church in Tver. The five-domed Dormition Cathedral was covered with a plank roof. Each of the three entrances had wooden porches.
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In 1564, Prince Ivan Mstislavsky donated the Dormition Cathedral funds to make three cathedral doors of iron in addition to the church of stone. Hammer door leaves were fixed in the west, south and north entries of the cathedral. When dilapidated building was rebuilt in the middle of the 18th century, it was decided to keep the old doors in their original places.
The Svensky Monastery. Source: ru.wikipedia.org
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After the revolution, the Bolsheviks closed the Svensky Monastery. In 1930, the Dormition Cathedral was blown up. Its doors, however, were reserved to the present day: the doors of the north and west entries are now kept in the museum of the Kolomenskoye estate, whereas the south door is a part of Bryansk Antiquities collection.
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The fragment of the doors of the Svensky Monastery of the Dormition
Little less than 3 metres high door leaf was hammered from durable iron. It was decorated with patterned overlays made in rasping iron technique: a tracery pattern was hammered out in a strip of iron with a hammer and a chisel, then it was polished with a broaching file — a special narrow rasp. After those procedures the edges of the holes turned out to be curved inward. The rasped strips were applied to the main plates of the doors and secured with curly rivets.
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Bryansk State Regional Ethnography Museum
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Doors of the Svensky Monastery of the Dormition
Creation period
16th century
Dimensions
280x108 cm
Technique
Expanded iron, hammer-work, rasping iron
Collection
Exhibition
5
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