On November 18, 2024 at 19.00 in the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad in Moscow will be held the official opening of the exposition «Russian presence in the Holy Land». In the opening program — All-Russian premiere of documentary-animation film «Ascent to Jerusalem» (12+).
.Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media will organize in 2024-2025 in four Russian cities a series of exhibitions «Russian presence in the Holy Land». The project is dedicated to the tradition of pilgrimage to the holy places of modern Israel, Palestine and Syria. This is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with little-known facts of Christian pilgrimage, religious traditions and the history of the Russian presence in the Holy Land, to reveal the deep spiritual meaning of traveling to the shrines.
The exhibitions will feature authentic museum objects (photographs, rare books, coins, lithographs and icons from private collections), as well as multimedia.
Specially for the project, the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media in partnership with the film studio «Foma Kino» created a documentary-animated film «Ascent to Jerusalem». It is a film study of the theme of pilgrimage, which combines two sides of interest in the Holy Land: scientific and spiritual. The picture will be presented to the guests by the creators of the movie — producer Igor Meshchan and director Alexandra Andronova.
Igor Meshchan.
The authors of the exhibition project paid special attention to the image and life of Russian pilgrims, the projects of the Russian authorities and Russian Spiritual Mission to build Russian farmsteads and temples, known today as «Russian Palestine». A special feature of the exhibition will be a story about the history of stereophotography in the Holy Land, which is both a photo chronicle of life and everyday life in the Holy Land of the XIX century and an example of the most popular souvenir.
In the exposition «Russian presence in the Holy Land» each object will be a testimony of the spiritual path of our ancestors and will familiarize with the history of Russian pilgrimage. The exposition is based on unique original photographs taken by photographers of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem and copies of photographs from the collection of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society. At the opening of the exhibition with an introductory speech will be made by historian S.Y. Zhitenev, deputy head of the scientific section of the IPPO, candidate of cultural studies.
In Moscow the exhibition «Russian presence in the Holy Land» will last until November 29, then the exposition will be moved to St. Petersburg, and in 2025 the exhibitions will open in Arzamas and Sarov.
The project is supported by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.
The project is realized with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives.
Partners of the project — magazine «Thomas», film studio «Thomas Kino», Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, Orthodox Television Foundation, First public Orthodox TV channel «Spas», radio station «Vera» (ANO Information Center for Radio Broadcasting, Art and Culture «Vera, Hope, Love») and others
Access to the exhibition is free.
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