Today, at 12.00 at the State Historical Museum will be a presentation of song «The Eucharist», carried out by Viktor Vasnetsov for the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw in 1911.

In 2007, the State Scientific Research Institute for Restoration was a three song «The Eucharist» 1911 work of Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov from the State Historical Museum. Past work found that canvases are the sketches for the apse mosaic of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw, which Vasnetsov worked in the years 1901-1911. Orthodox Cathedral in Warsaw, came at the end of the reign of Emperor Alexander III (the architect LN Benois). Work on the interior decoration of a cathedral to fulfill the major Russian artists. Decoration of the temple were sixteen huge mosaic compositions performed by sketches Vasnetsov. May 20, 1912 the temple was consecrated in the name of the Holy âÌÁÇÏ×ÅÒÎÏÇÏ the Great Prince Alexander Nevsky.

But the cathedral lasted very long. In 1918, when Poland became an independent State, Warsaw magistrate ordered the city to eliminate most of the Orthodox churches. It was resolved and the fate of the grand temple at Saxon Square - the cathedral was destroyed.

Picturesque sketches Vasnetsova to Warsaw cathedral mosaics are of great value to the history of Russian religious painting of the new beginning of XX century. The artist has begun, as he wrote that «a great and very responsible work», in autumn of 1910, creating a graphic thumbnail. «Sketch performed in several of the" Eucharist "Kiev St. Sophia Cathedral», - wrote Vasnetsov. «Eucharist» - a model of religious painting «vasnetsovskoy schools», combines styling images old church with a fine art form of art nouveau frontier of XIX-XX centuries. Contemporaries saw in the religious works Vasnetsov and psychologism, and reflections of medieval Russian art, and high aestheticism, which is formulated as an artist: «Beauty is the foundation of all forms of the universe».

Part Three «Eucharist», available for restoration, has long kept in the storerooms of the historical museum. Canvas was rolled coils, and in this state were a long time. This is evidenced by the characteristic of destruction: the deformation and fractures canvas, uneven and worn edge of breakthroughs, the loss of entire pieces of yarn and fabric.

The work of the restorers tried to intrude as little as possible in the author's paintings. Large-scale restoration, historic and artistic study sketches song «The Eucharist» VM Vasnetsov performed at the highest professional level. Paintings are designed for placement in the permanent exhibition of the history museum.

Source: museum.ru