The icon of Our Lady of Toropetzkaya go home

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Toropetzkaya icon of Our Lady will be at home

The scandal surrounding the icon of the Mother of God Toropetzkaya can flare up with renewed vigor. As it turned out the day before, the icon will not be returned to the meeting of the Russian Museum, even at the end of 2011. It is reported by "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" with reference to the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev.

At yesterday's meeting with journalists, Avdeev said that the icon will go home in Toropetskiy monastery. According to him, the move will be carried out immediately after creating the necessary conditions for the storage of a unique product. In Toropetzkaya monastery should take care of maintaining the desired level of humidity and ventilation. It is assumed that the icon will stay in the monastery for a year. What will happen after that period is still unknown. At the moment it is clear only that it will remain in museum collections of the Russian Federation.

Recall that the icon of the Mother of God Toropetzkaya located in the suburban village from the end of 2009, where she in connection with an urgent request to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch. The icon had to return to the Russian Museum in September last year. However, the duration of her stay outside the walls of the museum is constantly growing. The decision of the Ministry of Culture of March 9, 2011 icon should be in the church of Alexander Nevsky to December. It was believed that after it is returned to the Russian Museum.

With the support of Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev yesterday as a gift to the Russian Orthodox Church have also been transferred to the old icon, left the country after the revolution and during World War II. They bought and returned to Russia patron Sergei Shmakov. "It was painstaking work done by tracking the fate and location of the ancient Orthodox images" - the press service of the Ministry of Culture - "Icons purchased in many different places: at the auctions, antique shops and even in the markets. Under the project, was acquired more than 70 icons of approximately $ 30 million rubles. " Among them - "Our Lady of passionate," 1794; "Holy Face", dating from the seventeenth century, as well as the rare monk, "St. John the Evangelist in silence", the creation of which dates to the mid XVIII century.

As part of the ceremony Sergei Shmakov, according to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", thanked the Russian Museum for the icon of the Mother of God Toropetzkaya and did not rule out the possibility of representing the walls of the St. Petersburg museum returned shrines.

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Under the project, were acquired more than 70 icons of approximately $ 30 million rubles

It turns out that on average, each from 428 000 rub.

Again, the scheme worked?
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