The frescoes were created by royal masters headed by Mark Matveev. This is the last and best preserved work of the famed engraver, carried out at the Patriarch’s command.
For this edition, for the first time, a special and so large-scale photograph of the entire ensemble of frescoes and archival materials was taken.
In the book you can also see the frescoes, which are inaccessible to the public. Photos of large fragments give an opportunity to consider the artistic handwriting of the masters. The published schemes of frescoes will help to better navigate in the space of the temple and more clearly present the theological program of the painting.
In 2021, the 815th anniversary of the death of St. Grand Duchess Maria Shvarnovna, the founder of the monastery, will be celebrated, and in 2022, the 370th anniversary of the death of Patriarch Joseph, the patron and beautifier of the cathedral temple, who commissioned these murals.
The book is addressed to all those interested in Old Russian monumental painting, historians, culturologists, art historians and just good people.