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Museum of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg will open in the northern capital of Russia

23 March 2020
Музей блаженной Ксении Петербургской откроется в северной столице России

A museum dedicated to one of the most beloved Russian saints, Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, will open its doors in the city on the Neva this summer. As the portal Konkretno.ru reports with reference to the diocesan news agency 'Living Water', the museum will be located on the Petrograd side, on Lakhtinskaya Street, at the temple in the name of Blessed Xenia. The grand opening of the exposition is planned for June 6 - the day when the parish will celebrate the first anniversary of its consecration.

The initiator of the creation of the museum was the parish churchwarden Vyacheslav Zarenkov, head of the Creative World Foundation. An important place in the exposition will be occupied by paintings by the artist Alexander Prostev, dedicated to the revered saint, whose main work of life is prayer for neighbors and help to them. Next to the paintings there will be stands with biographical information about Blessed Xenia and the history of the first parish in St. Petersburg, consecrated in her honor.

“Presumably, on the site where the temple was built, there was a house in which Ksenia lived with her husband Andrei Petrov. House for sure was on this street. The most famous place associated with the blessed one is the Smolenskoye cemetery. There she rests, and from here she left for the feat of foolishness, ”said the press secretary of the“ Creating World ”Foundation, priest Mikhail Prokhodtsev.

Let us remind you that a parish in the name of Blessed Xenia was registered in the northern capital in 2002 at the initiative of the organization of the disabled in the Petrograd district of the city. On Sundays and holidays, members of the community gathered together, read prayers, discussed issues of the future construction of the temple. When the temple was finally built, on June 6, 2019, it was consecrated by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonuphius.

Equipped with an elevator and ramps, the temple today is decorated with murals with scenes from the life of the blessed Xenia of Petersburg by Alexander Prostev; icons for him were created by the head of the icon-painting workshop of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Dmitry Mironenko and Alexander Stalnov. And the parish baptismal is decorated with mosaics from materials discovered by Mikhail Lomonosov.



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Museum of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg will open in the northern capital of Russia Museum of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg will open in the northern capital of Russia A museum dedicated to one of the most beloved Russian saints, Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, will open its doors in the city on the Neva this summer. As the portal Konkretno.ru reports with reference to the diocesan news agency 'Living Water', the museum will be located on the Petrograd side, on Lakhtinskaya Street, at the temple in the name of Blessed Xenia. The grand opening of the exposition is planned for June 6 - the day when the parish will celebrate the first anniversary of its consecration. The initiator of the creation of the museum was the parish churchwarden Vyacheslav Zarenkov, head of the Creative World Foundation. An important place in the exposition will be occupied by paintings by the artist Alexander Prostev, dedicated to the revered saint, whose main work of life is prayer for neighbors and help to them. Next to the paintings there will be stands with biographical information about Blessed Xenia and the history of the first parish in St. Petersburg, consecrated in her honor. “Presumably, on the site where the temple was built, there was a house in which Ksenia lived with her husband Andrei Petrov. House for sure was on this street. The most famous place associated with the blessed one is the Smolenskoye cemetery. There she rests, and from here she left for the feat of foolishness, ”said the press secretary of the“ Creating World ”Foundation, priest Mikhail Prokhodtsev. Let us remind you that a parish in the name of Blessed Xenia was registered in the northern capital in 2002 at the initiative of the organization of the disabled in the Petrograd district of the city. On Sundays and holidays, members of the community gathered together, read prayers, discussed issues of the future construction of the temple. When the temple was finally built, on June 6, 2019, it was consecrated by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonuphius. Equipped with an elevator and ramps, the temple today is decorated with murals with scenes from the life of the blessed Xenia of Petersburg by Alexander Prostev; icons for him were created by the head of the icon-painting workshop of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Dmitry Mironenko and Alexander Stalnov. And the parish baptismal is decorated with mosaics from materials discovered by Mikhail Lomonosov.
A museum dedicated to one of the most beloved Russian saints, Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, will open its doors in the city on the Neva this summer. As the portal Konkretno.ru reports with reference to the diocesan news agency 'Living Water', the museum will be located on the Petrograd side, on Lakhtinskaya Street, at the temple in the name of Blessed Xenia. The grand opening of the exposition is planned for June 6 - the day when the parish will celebrate the first anniversary of its consecration. The initiator of the creation of the museum was the parish churchwarden Vyacheslav Zarenkov, head of the Creative World Foundation. An important place in the exposition will be occupied by paintings by the artist Alexander Prostev, dedicated to the revered saint, whose main work of life is prayer for neighbors and help to them. Next to the paintings there will be stands with biographical information about Blessed Xenia and the history of the first parish in St. Petersburg, consecrated in her honor. “Presumably, on the site where the temple was built, there was a house in which Ksenia lived with her husband Andrei Petrov. House for sure was on this street. The most famous place associated with the blessed one is the Smolenskoye cemetery. There she rests, and from here she left for the feat of foolishness, ”said the press secretary of the“ Creating World ”Foundation, priest Mikhail Prokhodtsev. Let us remind you that a parish in the name of Blessed Xenia was registered in the northern capital in 2002 at the initiative of the organization of the disabled in the Petrograd district of the city. On Sundays and holidays, members of the community gathered together, read prayers, discussed issues of the future construction of the temple. When the temple was finally built, on June 6, 2019, it was consecrated by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonuphius. Equipped with an elevator and ramps, the temple today is decorated with murals with scenes from the life of the blessed Xenia of Petersburg by Alexander Prostev; icons for him were created by the head of the icon-painting workshop of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Dmitry Mironenko and Alexander Stalnov. And the parish baptismal is decorated with mosaics from materials discovered by Mikhail Lomonosov.