The exhibition and auction of Russian artists in Paris on the 150th anniversary of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

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Making the internal space and its decoration should match the " canons of St. Sophia of Constantinople ." To decorate the interiors have been invited to the Russian artists , held a pensioner practice in Italy. They were brothers and Evgraf Pavel Sorokin , F. and E. Bronnikov Vasiliev. They have painted three of the iconostasis, altar , four sails , the side arches and the image of the Saviour in the cupola .

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The rite of consecration of the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky September 11, 1861 made ​​archbishop Leontius (Lebedinsky ) with a large gathering of priests, visitors from Russia and the Parisians. The consecration of the temple was dedicated to the day of transfer of the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky . ( Russian gold leaf Timm )

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Prince of Novgorod , Alexander Nevsky Yaroslavich (born 1221, Pereslavl - mind . 1263, Gorodets) was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the face of the pious with Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow Cathedral on February 26, 1547 . After the transfer of his relics from Vladimir -on-Klyazma in St. Petersburg, they were installed August 30, 1724 at the Alexander Nevsky church of St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery of the Holy Trinity .

- Thumbnail of " Imperial titulyarnika ," 1672.
- St. Alexander Nevsky . Fresco , 1666 , Moscow , Kremlin, Cathedral of the Archangel , painting the south-east pillar.

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Catholic abbot Goethe, soon converted to Orthodoxy , wrote about the newly -built Russian church : " This monument - one of the most beautiful jewelry in Paris. His five bulbous cupolas terminated elliptical balls and glittering crosses. In the domes covered with gold leaf, beautiful pierced the window. Fully gilded stone roof supported by four church porch with beautiful carved columns . Inside the temple is decorated with beautiful murals grand performance. All the walls are covered with colorful paintings , glowing with gold . "

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The lower church was consecrated on February 1, 1863 in the name of the Holy Trinity.

In 1860 I. Vasiliev published in Paris in the French magazine orthodox "Christian unity ", which was given to explain the true meaning of Christianity, in particular orthodoxy.

Nearly '21 served his father Joseph in Paris. In 1867 he was recalled to St. Petersburg and was appointed to chair the Education Committee to the Holy Synod, which he led for 14 years.

In 1876, the two bell towers were installed bells, cast in bronze guild of merchants of the city of Saratov on the means retired colonel PD Buturlin . On the right is a small bell tower bell clock on the wall .

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The interiors of the temple continued to be decorated in the future. AE Beideman created a few more images of Our Lady, the Savior and the saints. For the lower church of artist G. Sedov wrote the image of the Holy Trinity. The well-known marine painter AP Bogolyubov, who from the beginning took an active part in creating and decorating the church , wrote in the 1870s, two large canvases - " preaching of Jesus Christ on the Lake of Tiberias " and " Jesus Walking on Water ." 16 remote images the artist has written , ND Dmitriev- Orenburg . The image of " The Flight into Egypt " and "Christ with the disciples on the road to Emmaus ," performed by VP Sheremetev.

In 1955-56 the years when the next major overhaul was painted by artists of the lower church of Albert and Margaret Benoit. At the same time a fresco in the tympanum of the pediment on the facade of arched church was replaced by a mosaic - a copy of the image of the Savior of the church of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (V in ). . Fulfilled its mozaichist M. Herzl .

- Painting in the lower church ( in the crypt )

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In the Cathedral of St..
Alexander Nevsky, Ivan Turgenev's funeral (1883), Mary Bashkirtseva (1884), Feodor Chaliapin (1938), Wassily Kandinsky (1944), Ivan Bunin (1953).
Funeral and the fallen soldiers.

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And these days - Andrei Tarkovsky (1986), Bulat Okudzhava (1997).

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This cathedral was married to painter Pablo Picasso, Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova July 12, 1918.
Witnesses were Sergei Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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French singer Edith Piaf in October 1962, married in the Cathedral with a young Russian hairdresser Theo Sarap.
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