![]() ![]() Currently the property of the Museum Fund of Russia, the ministry of culture and head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill approved the transaction. As part of the agreement, the church must regulate conditions in accordance with the tomb’s preservation. The Hermitage is expected to give the monument to the cathedral for 49 years with the option to extend the loan. For decades, the situation was the opposite,” said the Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky. Today, the artifact’s religious significance is more important than its artistic value. ![]() “The Hermitage is proceeding from an understanding that, at the present geopolitical moment, the reunification of relics with the tomb on the territory of the monastery has acquired a particular relevance for the fate of the country and of social peace within it. At 16-feet tall, angels with inscribed shields sit at the top. Two pedestals on each side support arms and banners and two large candelabras flank the sides of the monument. At the bottom of the monument, sits the sarcophagus which has high relief battle scenes along the side and is topped with a crown and broken sword on its lid. The Baroque monument, commissioned by the Empress Elizabeth in 1743 and designed by court portrait painter Georg Christoph Groot, has a pyramid-like structure. In 1922, for example, it was moved to the museum for an exhibition aimed at protecting the destruction of church silver. The Hermitage museum saved the monument from destruction four times over the last 100 years. Collector and Sanctioned Russian Magnate Mikhail Fridman Is Investigated in London ![]()
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