Покаяние блудного сына

Музыка
Георгий Свиридов
Хор Государственной Третьяковской галереи.
Хор Московского Сретенского монастыря.

Repentance of the Prodigal Son

Music by
Georgy Sviridov
Choir of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Choir of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery.

Accompanying photographs of the frescoes in Ferapontov Monastery, Vologda Province, Russia.

The monastery was founded by Saint Ferapont in 1398..
The most ancient structure, the Cathedral of Nativity of the Virgin (1490), was built in brick by the masters of Rostov. This edifice is the best preserved of three sister cathedrals erected in the 1490s in the Russian North. All the interior walls are covered with invaluable frescoes by the great medieval painter Dionisius. This is the last surviving Russian medieval church with fully painted walls.

The monastery was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1924 and was later turned into a museum. The ensemble of the monastery is considered one of the purest examples of Russian medieval art and, as such was added by UNESCO for its inclusion as a World Heritage site......

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