The artist is Istomin
The event depicted is a religious procession in the walls of the Tikhvin Mother of God of the Assumption Monastery, dedicated to the transfer of the icon of the Mother of God, which received the name of the Tikhvinsky. Assumption Cathedral – the main repository and relics for the icon.
The Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (Tikhvinsky Odigitria) – has long been revered in Rus’ thanks to its wonderful movement from the Constantinople temple to the borders of North Rus’, numerous miracles of healing and protecting the monastery from the enemy, it is considered one of the images of the Mother of God, created, according to the legend, the apostle Luke.
The multi -figure picture has a large topographic and iconographic accuracy. Emperor Paul I and the heir-prize Alexander Pavlovich, who hold the image, take part in the ceremony of the transfer of the icons. Nearby – Empress Maria Fedorovna to them Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich. The picture captures many real faces – column a. AND. Bezborodko, next to the Grand Dukes is the leader of the county nobility of. AT. Rimsky-Korsakov, composer grandfather. The customer of the picture is the archimandrite of the Tikhvin monastery Gerasim (in the world of Knyazev), his figure in Mitr is distinctly distinguished among other clergymen. In the foreground, turning to the audience, is captured by the artist himself, who holds the scroll with the inscription: “This picture was written by this Vasily Istomin, from May 20, I finished on 2 days of November, 1801”. The event depicted on the canvas is described in the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti of June 28, 1798 (No. 52, from. 1242–1243).
Programs/Films about this work in the media text:
Istomin in. The transfer of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin on June 9, 1798
Creation year: 2016 | Interactive program | Language:
Interactive program for the picture of Vasily Istomin allows you to get acquainted with the participants in the ceremony in more detail. Among them, in addition to members of the imperial family, the Chancellor Count A was present.AND. Bezborodko, leader of the county nobility p.AT. Rimsky-Korsakov (grandfather of the composer n.AND. Rimsky-Korsakov), military leader a.AND. Arakcheev, customer of the painting Archimandrite Gerasim and many others, also the artist portrayed at least 80 Tikhvans. The program consists of five sections and allows you to consider the image in high resolution, as well as see the author’s animation.
Procession
Creation year: 2016 | Video painting | Language: | Duration: 33:11
The film was created on the basis of a number of artifacts of the 18th century and paintings in. Istomin from the collection of the Russian Museum “Transfer of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin on June 9, 1798” 1801.
Istomin in. The transfer of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin on June 9, 1798
Creation year: 2014 | Computer movie | Language: | Duration: 14:50
The film is dedicated to an important event in the history of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church – the transfer of a particularly revered relic on June 9, 1798 – the miraculous icon of the Mother of God from the Church of the Mary of the Tikhvinsky monastery to the Assumption Cathedral in Tikhvin after the completion of its repair and renewal of paintings. The picture of the artist Vasily Istomin, performed in 1801, captured this solemn event described in detail in the St. Petersburg Gazette.
