Description of the attraction
The famous Church of the Deposition of the Robe is a wooden church from the village of Borodava, located not far from the famous Ferapontov Monastery, which was transferred to Kirillov in the area of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. Today the church is located within the New Town of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, next to the northern wall of the Ivanovsky Monastery.
The Church of the Position of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos was erected on a high promontory at the confluence of the Borodava and Sheksna rivers. The trading village of Borodava played a very important role as a transshipment base, as well as a pier for the monastery. The church was consecrated in October 1785 in honor of the significant holiday "The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos in Blachernae". The Robe of the Virgin was kept in the Blachernae Church.
The foundation of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe was built at the expense of the Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Joasaph, whose family came from the rich and noble family of the Obolensky, existing from Rurik. As soon as in 1891 Joasaph reached the position of archbishop, he began to personally deal with the Church of the Robe, after the construction of which he consecrated it on his own.
The surviving antimension has reached us, given to the process of consecrating the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, which was accidentally discovered by priests Pavel Levitsky in 1866. It is made of canvas and has very small dimensions: about 14 cm wide and the same length. On the antimension there is an image of a six-pointed cross, and under the cross there is an inscription.
In 1798, by the decree of the Synod, the Ferapont monastery was abolished; from that moment on, local residents-parishioners began to take care of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. Several photographs and drawings of the church dating back to the 19th century have survived to this day. In 1847 the famous cultural historian and literary critic Stepan Petrovich Shevyrev visited the church. In his book, the author mentions the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, and also gives a drawing of the church. The most valuable drawing of the church, according to the restorers-architects, is the drawing of the church, which depicts a church covered with a plank, made by the famous artist Nikolai Alexandrovich Martynov.
As for the arrangement of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, we can say that it is of the most popular type for ancient Russia. It consists of several volumes of various heights and sizes: altar, main and refectory. In 1848, renovations were carried out, but until that time the refectory was surrounded by an open gallery, located on pillars, or a gulbishop. The architectural component of the Borodavsky church is distinguished by a significant complication of the kletsk type, which cannot be said about archaic monuments, for example, the church of Lazar Muromsky. The Church of the Deposition of the Robe is characterized by refined clarity of all proportions, expressive alternation of lines from the refectory room to the peaked main and altar parts.
If we turn to the plan, then the church consists of two log cabins, which are placed one after the other. The volumetric solution of the temple is much more complicated than the general composition: in the main frame there are two volumes - a high inner chapel and a small altar room. The temple blockhouse is assembled from pine of small diameter; the logs of the log house were selected especially carefully, and the knots were completely absent. Most likely, the small diameter of the logs became a means of creating the visual scale of the church.
In 1950, the Church of the Deposition of the Robe was closed, while 19 icons, which date from the 15-16 centuries, have survived. The largest number of icon-painting works from the temple are an exceptional phenomenon of the artistic component of that time.
The iconostasis of the Borodavsky temple consisted of a couple of tiers. In the lower tier there was an icon of the "Position of the Belt and Robe of the Mother of God" that has survived to this day. The second tier was represented by the Deesis tier, from which the "Great Martyr George", "St. Basil the Great", "The Great Martyr Dmitry Thessaloniki" have survived. The prophetic and festive rite in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe was completely absent. Since the 16th century, all the lost icons of 1485 have been gradually replenished. The most significant of the lost icons that came to the place were the works of icon painting in the image of the Deesis, as well as the Royal Doors.
