Description of the attraction
The Nevyansk Icon Museum in Yekaterinburg is the first private museum in Russia, which contains a unique and wonderful collection of Old Believer icon painting. The museum is located at the intersection of Engels and Belinsky streets, in a two-story and bright building. The museum was opened 10 years ago by the famous poet Yevgeny Roizman.
On the first floor of the museum, you can see the venerable Ural artists - Alekseev-Svinkin, Brusilovsky, Metelev and Sazhaev. As for the second floor, it is completely occupied by the Nevyansk icon.
The phenomenon "Nevyanskaya icon" came from the name of the city of Nevyansk, whose history began in 1701. It was then that an iron-smelting and iron-smelting plant appeared on the Neiva River. Nevyansk became the main center of the Old Believers in the Urals. In 1720, several icon-painting workshops were already opened here. Contemporary art critics highly appreciate the Nevyansk icon painters and their creations.
The Yekaterinburg Museum of the "Nevyansk Icon" is the most complete collection of this school. The permanent museum exposition consists of 300 icons of the XVI-XX centuries. Among the icons presented, you can see the most ancient - "The Mother of God of Egypt", dating back to 1734, and the latest work of icon painters "Savior" (1919).
Many of these icons have a dramatic fate - they were shot at, burned, chopped down. Some of the icons have been restored and some have remained intact. In addition to icons, the museum displays silver frames, which are important elements of the decoration of images, as well as a collection of copper sculptures from the 18th-19th centuries. and Russian lubok XIX cent. The museum has a small library of handwritten and early printed books of the first half of the 17th - 19th centuries.
The Nevyansk Icon Museum is engaged in exhibition, publishing, research and restoration activities.
