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No. 2 (25) (2022)

Expeditions of the Russian Museum to the White Sea Karelia (1958–2021)

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UDC 75.046(470.22) DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.02.003
Published 2022-06-30
Irina A. Antropova
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Irenanel@mail.ru
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Russian Museum, Karelia, wooden architecture, icon, worship cross, Muezersky Monastery, Kem

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Antropova, I.A. (2022) ‘Expeditions of the Russian Museum to the White Sea Karelia (1958–2021): UDC 75.046(470.22)’, The Art of Eurasia, (2), pp. 36–45. doi:10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.02.003.
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Abstract

The article is devoted to the more than 60 years of history of the study of the White Sea Karelia by the employees of the Russian Museum. The main stages of expeditionary research, starting from the 1950s, are given, which aimed at a general survey of the territory, identifying the surviving monuments of antiquity and exporting the most valuable and affected of them to Leningrad. The author gives a description of the most interesting finds: icons, books, worship crosses, including a wooden carved Crucifixion from the Muezersky Monastery. Such methods of working with found artifacts as wood identification, radiography and shooting in ultraviolet rays, analysis of the chemical composition of author's and innovative painting layers and metallized coating of icons are characterized. It is noted that in connection with the advent of modern technologies, the ongoing work is reaching a new level of research.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.02.003

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