Russian Thebaid (2014)

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Panorama of the old wall, scratched with inscriptions, in the frame the tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, winter, snow.

Panorama of the buildings and territory of the monastery.

A monk walks through the snow with an icon in his hands.

Panorama of the territory next to the monastery, in the frame of the Orthodox church.

A small winding river, snow in the frame, thawed, wooden houses.

Water flows in the river, snow, ice, rocks on the bottom are in the frame.

The former Nilo-Sora Sretensky desert, in the frame of the old buildings of the former monastery (psychiatric hospital).

Panorama of the tower (through the iron grating).

A man in the yard puts firewood in a wheelbarrow, carries a wheelbarrow.

In the frame, workers in overalls in the yard.

The round arch, the gate of the former monastery.

Men in the yard, with buckets.

A woman with a child in her arms goes up to the porch, enters the house.

Men carry buckets of water.

A square hole, a man with a shovel in the frame.

Men carry buckets of water.

A man carries an armful of hay with a pitchfork.

View of the territory near the former monastery, in the frame a long white one-story building, a panorama of the tower, the temple.

An old abandoned church, a wooden barn in the frame, clothes drying next to it.

Panorama of the iron door of the barn.

The architect and restorer Alexander Popov is in the frame.

Says Popov.

In the photo, Popov is chopping firewood.

Says Popov.

Men are sitting at the table, drinking tea.

A worker in overalls is working with wood, sawing boards.

Carpentry shop, workshop, in-frame boards, machine tools, etc.

Construction, restoration of a wooden log house, in the frame workers, builders.

Men are lifting logs up.

Work on a construction site, workers are laying logs, planks.

View of an unfinished wooden one-storey building, builders are working on the roof.

A man drives logs with a huge hammer.

Top view of the territory and buildings of the monastery.

A flooded ice rink next to a former monastery, teenagers playing hockey.

A square in the city of Kirillov, a fair, attractions, people walking.

Camber with felt boots.

In the frame there is a fair, goods, children's toys, balloons, etc.

A man is frying a barbecue on the grill.

People at the fair, a boy knocks down cans for prizes.

Children on an inflatable trampoline.

The boy is driving a children's car.

Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, panorama of the territory, fortress wall, buildings, towers, temple, etc.

Says Sergey, a student at the Art College of Arts.

Says Ekaterina, a student at the College of Arts and Crafts.

Ekaterina talks about her work, shows animal figures made of pressed snow.

A little girl is playing a pipe.

The man drops into the ice hole, swims.

Says Popov.

Winter, an open pond, a woman is swimming.

Panorama of warmly dressed people near the reservoir.

View of a rectangular ice hole (pond), a woman is swimming, people are standing around the perimeter of the pond.

A provincial town, a road along the houses, people in the frame.

A man on a motorcycle is passing by.

Panorama of the old church, playground, two-storey wooden residential barracks.

An elderly man is stirring the coals in the oven with a poker.

Fire, coals.

The night, the square, the fire show, artists in the frame, a performance with fire, different numbers are shown to the music.

The yard near the workshop, a man is processing something on a machine, sparks are flying.

Ferapontov Belozersky Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvensky monastery, in the frame of the dome of the church, towers, buildings, etc.

The white church of Elijah the Prophet is in the frame.

Popov goes to the church, goes inside.

View of the restored church.

Popov stands in the temple, behind him is a wall with an iconostasis.

Says Popov.

View of the ceiling of the church, panorama of the walls, iconostasis.

Says Popov.

Snowdrifts, cat.

View of the wall and buildings of the monastery, panorama of the wooden door in the wall (Nilo-Sora desert).

People walk through a stone arch, along a cobblestone pavement.

The fair, the children are eating shish kebab at the table.

In the frame, visitors to the fair, local residents.

Sledding in a dog sled.

The Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kirillov, near the ski track, skiers in the frame.

Children on "cheesecakes" roll down the mountain.

View of the old white church.

The dome of the Orthodox church with a cross.

A man saws boards with a chainsaw.

A blacksmith shop, a man is engaged in forging.

Carpentry shop, in the frame of boards, blanks, a man is engaged in processing wood.

Says Popov.

The photo shows Popov with an axe at restoration work.

Says Popov.

Heads of sculptures, busts in the window.

Monument to Lenin in the city of Kirillov.

A fair, festive events in the city, local residents, Cossacks in military uniforms in the frame.

In the frame are local residents, children, etc.

Fair, rides, snowmobiling.

A white brick building, the inscription on the facade "May, peace, labor".

A man carries garbage, boxes.

There is a man with a bucket.

A man is swimming in an open pond (ice hole).

In the frame, patients of a psychiatric hospital (on a walk, sitting against the walls).

A small river flows, a view of the monastery buildings, a church, etc.

The ruins of the monastery, the wall, the gate, the view of the lake.

Says Popov.

Alexey Laushkin, historian, scientific director of the Solovetsky Maritime Museum, is in the frame.

Says Laushkin.

Stone arch, the White Sea in the frame.

The drawing is an image of Satan, the Antichrist (in the form of a red beast).

Panorama of the shore, rocks, pieces of ice floes, snow.

A dog at a stone wall - barking, howling.

Winter, shore, sea, rocks, snow, ice.

Server landscape - bare trees, snow, etc. (panoramic shooting).

Says Laushkin.

A yellow-red disk.

Says Laushkin.

Accelerated shooting - sunset, the sun's disk goes over the horizon.

Says Laushkin.

White clouds.

Panorama of bare trees, in the frame of a hill on Bolshoy Solovetsky Island (Sekirnaya Gora).

The Holy Ascension Monastery of the Solovetsky Monastery.

A northern landscape, snow in the frame, a lonely tree, a panorama of a white Orthodox chapel.

Evening, clouds, sunset sky, smooth water, panorama of the shore.

Says Laushkin.

In the frame of the Solovetsky monastery, a snow-covered field, a man is walking across the field.

Says Laushkin.

A man is banging a large church bell.

Panorama of the monastery buildings, the temple.

A huge field in the snow, in the shadows of monastery buildings, towers, etc., a man with a dog is walking across the field (taken from the top point).

Panorama of the shore, snow and rocks in the frame.

View of the domes of the temple on the territory of the monastery, the fortress wall, towers, etc., in the frame of a football goal with a net on the field.

Priest Vyacheslav Umnyagin speaks (iconostasis in the background, a large crucifix).

Panorama of the walls and ceiling of the temple, in the frame of paintings, frescoes, etc. (Solovetsky farmstead in Moscow).

Priest Vyacheslav Umnyagin speaks.

The icon depicts St.

Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow.

Winter, the outlines of the Solovetsky monastery can be seen in the background, bare trees, snow, etc. in the frame.

White one-storey house, courtyard.

Says Laushkin.

An Orthodox church, a service is underway, in the frame are clergymen, monks, parishioners (Church of St.

Philip of the Transfiguration of the Solovetsky Monastery).

Priests with palm branches.

The faces of the clergy, monks.

Panorama of the frescoes-icons.

View of the Solovetsky monastery, snow in the frame, a wooden boat on the shore.

Says Laushkin.

There is garbage in the frame, car parts, laundry drying in the yard, a view of the Solovetsky Monastery.

A man drives along the road on a tricycle.

In the frame, the chapel of the monastery, gloomy sky, clouds, snow on the road.

Says Laushkin.

The monastery, the domes of the church, the sky, clouds, clouds in the frame.

A monk sings in the temple, a panorama of the temple, an iconostasis.

Winter landscape, view of the Solovetsky monastery, frozen water, boats, shore, bare trees in the frame.

Drawing (splint of the early 19th century) - the Moscow voivode Meshcherinov suppresses the Solovetsky uprising.

Says Laushkin.

The picture shows the Golgotha-Crucifixion monastery of the Solovetsky Monastery and St.

Job.

Summer, a panorama of trees, in the frame the white buildings of the monastery.

Says Laushkin.

Summer, Solovki, in the frame of Golgotha-Crucifixion hermitage.

Painting on the ceiling of the temple, an Orthodox cross in the center, a panorama of the walls of the temple, an iconostasis, a prayer book.

Abbot Herman (Chebotar) speaks.

Says Laushkin.

A monk sings in the temple, a panorama of the temple, walls, iconostasis.

The monk finishes singing and says "Christ is Risen."

View of the monastery in the distance, a brick house in the frame, clothes drying on a rope.

Monks are walking on the territory of the monastery.

Local residents in the village next to the monastery, in the frame of the road, snow, wooden houses.

Panorama of the red wooden barrack house, in the distance you can see the Solovetsky Monastery.

In the frame there is an old boat on the shore, in the distance you can see the Solovetsky monastery.

A boy runs across a snow-covered field.

Says Laushkin.

In the drawing (splint) there is an Alkonost bird of paradise.

Stone arch, the White Sea in the frame.