In the Novgorod memorial estate presented unique masterpieces of Old Russian divine service sewing

Today in Episcopal (Faceted) chamber in the Novgorod Kremlin exhibition "Masterpieces of Old Russian sewing opened. Divine service vestments with images of the Novgorod lords". As the soobshchayetnovgorodsky memorial estate, at exhibition two unique monuments of Old Russian front sewing of the middle of the XVII century are shown. One of them – a unique omofor of the middle of the XVII century from a vestry of St. Sophia Cathedral with shity images Moscow and Novgorod kremly. According to the legend, the omofor belonged to the patriarch Nikon, and most likely, was his contribution to St. Sophia Cathedral after 1652, when Nikon...