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Icons and reliquaries. On current trends in constructing of the church space in Russia
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-3-102-114
Abstract
The paper discusses some current trends in the process of (re) constructing of church space in Russia in the 2010s. Three stages can be traced in this field in the post-Soviet period. In the 1990s, the interior of churches returned to the Russian Orthodox Church was restored as a liturgical space – icons (often different in size and stile, brought by parishioners) could be placed on windows, chairs or used to form temporary iconostases. With the accumulation of church funds and the development of the church infrastructure, the ecclesiastical space began to be developed and become unified in form through pre-thinking everything and placing orders for new iconostases, wall paintings, icons and icon-cases. At last at the third stage (in many regions it may be clearly traced as from the end of 2010s) the interior of churches started to be filled with particles of relics, reliquaries, brandea, constructing a local ‘hierotopy’, the space of shrines. The paper is focused on the church of Boris and Gleb in Borovsk (Kaluga region). Besides its interior, the author analyses an iconography of the hagiographical icon of Marina of Antioch that was painted for this church.
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D. I. AntonovRussian Federation
Dmitriy I. Antonov, Dr. of Sci. (History), associate professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125993
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For citation: Antonov D.I. Icons and reliquaries. On current trends in constructing of the church space in Russia. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2020;(3):102-114. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-3-102-114
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