The Primorye Arts and Crafts Museum houses the landscape painting ‘Kiy Island’ by Gennady Sadomovsky. The artist painted it with tempera, that is, with paints based on pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion. To prevent the image from fading and crumbling over time, the artist covered it with varnish.
The painting depicts Kiy — a small rocky island in the Onega Bay of the White Sea. Its name comes from the Finno-Ugric word meaning ‘stone’. In 1639, Hieromonk Nikon, the future Russian patriarch, who initiated the Church reform known as ‘Raskol’ (the splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church), took cover from the storm there.
The painting depicts Kiy — a small rocky island in the Onega Bay of the White Sea. Its name comes from the Finno-Ugric word meaning ‘stone’. In 1639, Hieromonk Nikon, the future Russian patriarch, who initiated the Church reform known as ‘Raskol’ (the splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church), took cover from the storm there.
Later, to commemorate his salvation, Nikon ordered a worship cross to be erected on the island. Many holy relics venerated in Orthodox Church were put inside, for example, small particles from the tomb of the Mother of God and the robe of Jesus Christ. Now the cross is in the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Krapivniki in Moscow. It is considered one of the largest reliquaries — containers for relics.
Gennady Sadomovsky, who painted ‘Kiy Island’, was born on January 31, 1949 in the village of Nagovitsino, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) Oblast. He graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina, now known as the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after Alexander Stieglitz.
Since 1980, Sadomovsky worked in the Severodvinsk branch of the Arkhangelsk subdivision of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. At the same time, he participated in city, regional, republican and all-union exhibitions, as well as in art design seminars. Now Sadomovsky’s works are in museums in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Prague as well as in private collections in many countries around the world.
Gennady Sadomovsky, who painted ‘Kiy Island’, was born on January 31, 1949 in the village of Nagovitsino, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) Oblast. He graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina, now known as the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after Alexander Stieglitz.
Since 1980, Sadomovsky worked in the Severodvinsk branch of the Arkhangelsk subdivision of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. At the same time, he participated in city, regional, republican and all-union exhibitions, as well as in art design seminars. Now Sadomovsky’s works are in museums in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Prague as well as in private collections in many countries around the world.
