Russian Museum has agreed to postpone the ancient icon in the church

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Russian Museum proposed to move the icon of Our Lady of Hodegetria "in the church at the Mikhailovsky Castle, where she could worship the believers, and not send for the same purpose in the elite village near Moscow. This RIA Novosti reported with reference to the museum's deputy director for scientific work Yevgeny Petrov.

Transported to the year one of the oldest icons from the museum collection in the Alexander Nevsky church in the village "Княжье Lake on Thursday ordered the Ministry of Culture of Russia. Meanwhile, Virgin Hodegetria ", which dates back to XII - XIV centuries, Restoration is in critical condition, and because of this, not even in the museum. According to experts, if improperly storage conditions icon can be destroyed. According to Petrova, in the church at the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg you can meet the desired storage mode. According to the deputy director of the museum, the icon must conserve until until a suitable method for its restoration.

The decision to grant the icon should take advice and stock restoration committee of the museum based on the conclusion of the expert commission. Ministerial and museum staff included in the commission, are already working in Knyazhey Lake. However, in the museum's department of the Ministry of Culture said that in the church of Alexander Nevsky already have a special capsule-case, which can temporarily display the ancient Russian painting. In Moscow in the capsules are stored two icons from the Tretyakov Gallery.

If the ministry's request to give a positive answer, "Virgin Hodegetria" (she's Toropetzkaya) will be in "Knyazhey Lake as early as Dec. 5, when there will consecrate the church. Previously, Kommersant wrote that initiated the removal of the icon can become an Orthodox businessman Sergei Shmakov, the president of a construction company, Peregrine Falcon, the builder of the village.