Description of the attraction
The House of the Icon on Spiridonovka is located in the center of Moscow. This cultural and educational center is located next to the famous Ryabushinsky mansion and the chambers of the Pomegranate yard.
The museum was opened in 2009. It took Igor Vozyakov, the head of the museum, a whole decade in search of Orthodox treasures. Many relics were taken out by several waves of emigration from Russia. They ended up scattered all over the world. A huge amount of work has been done to find and acquire Orthodox relics. The collection collected over the years totals more than 2500 items - undoubted masterpieces of icon painting skill. Among them: the Mother of God Hodegetria of Georgia (15th century), St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (16th century), the only surviving banners of Tsar Nicholas II, a number of icons of the 17-19 centuries, icons of the 16th century, a Fayum portrait of the 4th century, a number of oklad icons from the beginning 20th century.
The House of the Icon is not just a museum, but also a cultural and educational center. Themed exhibitions, various lectures and master classes are organized monthly. Classes are held for Sunday school students. Art critics have prepared an interesting program that interests not only children, but also parents.
The first exhibition, which opened in October 2009, was called Atheists. Was there Christ? She talked about the activities of the Anti-Religious Commission, created in the Soviet state, designed to fight “priests, churches and religion.” In December, a new exhibition, “The House Icon of the Stars”, opened. Usually such icons are seen only by people very close to the family, friends. Famous people of the country decided to donate their house relics to the museum for a week so that everyone could see them.
On Christmas Eve, the museum hosted an amazing exhibition of church sewing. Each of the works, performed by the craftswomen of St. Tikhon's University, was embroidered for over a year. They used the finest silks, silver and gold threads, real pearls. The technology of such embroidery was lost after 1917. The art of facial sewing was restored from canvases that have survived from the 15th century.
