I'm going to let it spill over the edge of the column because I want it to be as big as possible. If you click on it, you should be able to see a bigger version. I love the attitude of the apostles. All I can find out about the mosaic is that it is in the Church of the Saviour in the Spilt Blood (Can that in be right?) in St. Petersburg and that it's circa 1890. I tried to find out more about Kharlamov, but I can't. The only Nikolai Kharlamov I can find was a 20th century military leader. It's strange to think that all this beauty was created in Russia such a short time before the October Revolution.
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Janet, I do not remember the mosaic, but I am 90% certain I have been to that church. Small world.
ReplyDeleteMost churches were whitewashed and turned into museums or gyms. Very slowly they are trying to uncover what can be salvaged or recreate it from pictures and memory. One Lutheran church's sanctuary we visited was turned into an indoor swimming pool.
ReplyDeleteThanks, VA. You comments gave me the idea of looking up the name of the church instead of the artist (not too good at ideas late at night when I wrote the post) and I found it on Wikipedia and will update the post.
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I really don't remember the mosaic, but I can look through the pictures I have of that trip. It was heartbreaking how little was left inside the church buildings and how few were even open. Some, like the Lutheran church were still standing but useless as a church inside.
ReplyDeleteThat's really beautiful.
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