Excursion tour: "Art history of Smolensk"

In our opinion, as art historians, this tour should be divided into three parts. As they say, art history is not only paintings, but also buildings - architecture and the history of decorations of temples and monasteries. This excursion tour differs from any official tour in that it fully tells about a particular building, temple - as if not affecting the history of the structure. It should be noted that the history of art of Smolensk differs from all known styles of world practice. It was born under Vladimir Monomakh, under the Smolensk principality of Ancient Russia. Here is what we are ready to offer you:

1 afternoon: The Assumption Cathedral, its art history, decoration from the inside. During this tour, we will tell you about the cathedral itself, i.e. the technique of its construction, talk about the painting of the iconostasis of the Assumption Cathedral, as well as tell you about the stories and secrets that not everyone can tell about - for example, about the Kazan icon that is stored in Smolensk, as well as about the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God "Odigitria" - the main shrine of Russia, as well as about the paintings in the cathedral itself and about interesting paintings and styles. Here all styles intersect from the 12th century, ending - nach. 20th century. The duration of the tour is a little more than 3 hours. Price on the specified phone. During the tour, we will also look from the inside all the buildings and structures of the Cathedral Hill and talk about the history of the place. Dinner arranged for you.

2 afternoon: Buildings of architecture of Smolensk, as a style of art history. The second part of the excursion day will tell us about the oldest buildings of our city and in general what they have to do with art history. You will be surprised, but the most direct. We will look at the buildings of the Art Gallery - the former Real School, and before that the Sheremetev estate, look at the buildings of the Big Soviet Street of Smolensk, talk about the role of the Smolensk Hotel and much more. The artist’s house will tell us the history of modern times, as well as, then we will go to see the temples of the 12th century – this is the temple of Peter and Paul, the Archangel Michael, John the Forerunner and the Avramievsky monastery of the 13th century, where you can see three unique icons of the Smolensk icon painting school. During this tour, we will again visit the Art Gallery, visit the exhibition hall dedicated to modern artists of Smolensk. Let’s look at the photo exhibition and much more. In addition, we will look at the places associated with M. Tenisheva in Smolensk and, of course, visit her estate in Flenovo or as she is called: Teremok and visit there unique structures and buildings of the beginning. 20 centuries - created by Vrubel, Roerich, Malyutin, Borshchevsky, Benois and many others. Complementing the second day, there may be a small excursion to the places of military glory of Smolensk - that is, it is the fortress wall, memorials of the Great Patriotic War, monuments dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812, a monument to A. Tvardovsky and his literary hero V. Terkin. Get acquainted with the monuments created by A. Sergeev and K. Pasternak (son of a famous writer).

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