Tropinin and village Kukavka

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Podolsky Bishop Demetrius (in the world Dmitri Ivanovich Sambikin) .1839-1908. - Historian and archaeologist. In his diary, partly published in Podolskih Diocesan Gazette for 1893, found very interesting descriptions of artistic riches, scattered in many rural churches and remaining unknown to anyone. So in the village Kukavka, Mogilev Province., Bishop describes the church dedicated sv.velikomuchenniku Demetrius and built in 1806 on the means of the landowner Count I. Markov. .. In kukavskoy lot of very nice church, the art work, icons, brushes famous painter Tropinin He was a serf of Count Markov. His hands belong to the icons: "The withdrawal of the Savior from the Cross" (the big picture, placed over the throne), "Four Evangelists" that overshadowed the angels, as mentioned in church inventories, but this image is not evangelical, but rather sv.ottsov and teachers mentioned the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. The iconostasis is particularly remarkable, and his beautiful paintings, icons - Adrian and Natalia, Martyr Demetrius, depicted in the growth in military weaponry, NE. Sofia and her daughters, Barbara sv.velikomuchenitsy, Venerable Mary of Egypt, St. Nicholas, Mother of God and dr.Zamechatelna also tracks shapes and painting a small icon (for zhertsennike) - Return sv.zhen bearers at the burial of the Savior.

Interesting that survived. It is believed that much of the picture was transferred in 1926 in Kiev museum TG Shevchenko Вінницькому museum.