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The co-chairs of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Preservation and Development of the Solovetsky Archipelago—His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko—opened the exhibition "Holy Abode: On the 600th Anniversary of the Solovetsky Monastery" at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
The exhibition is dedicated to the history and spiritual heritage of the Solovetsky Monastery, one of the largest centers of Orthodoxy and culture in the Russian North. The collection is based on icon paintings and decorative and applied art from the 16th to 19th centuries from the collections of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
"I would like to sincerely thank everyone who cares about preserving these treasures. For those far removed from the Church, these are artistic treasures, and for Orthodox believers, they are, of course, artistic treasures, but first and foremost, they are our national shrines. Suffice it to say that our distant ancestors prayed before these icons. And we still pray before them in the 21st century. This alone is worth reflecting on. If all these were myths and fairy tales, as we were taught, then this veneration would never have survived into the 21st century. But faith is a truly living force, passed down from generation to generation and inspired by the Lord Himself," the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed those present.
Dmitry Chernyshenko noted that this exhibition can be considered the first event to be implemented from the plan of events dedicated to the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Solovetsky Monastery.
"At the request of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin signed a decree according to which, in honor of the 600th anniversary, the Russian government, together with ministries and the Arkhangelsk region, is carrying out large-scale restoration of the architectural relics and infrastructure of the entire archipelago. We understand that the relics on display at the exhibition, the incredibly beautiful artifacts, carefully preserved by our scholars and custodians, are a visual embodiment of the spiritual tuning fork that is the Solovetsky Monastery. The Russian government, for its part, will take all measures to ensure that this plan is fully realized and implemented," the Deputy Prime Minister stated.
The 600th anniversary of the founding of the first monastic settlement on the Solovetsky Archipelago will be celebrated in 2029. Active preparations for the event are already underway.
In preparation for the celebration, more than 170 cultural and educational events are planned, including exhibitions and educational and scientific projects. The opening of the exhibition "Holy Abode: On the 600th Anniversary of the Solovetsky Monastery" is among these events.
The Solovetsky Monastery complex is expected to be restored, and the infrastructure of the Solovetsky settlement will be improved. Funding has been secured for this work.
In 2025, a district hospital, a new terminal building for the Solovki airfield, and a modern industrial and consumer waste management facility were already commissioned in the village of Solovetsky. Construction of a service pier and reconstruction of the Tamarin passenger pier have begun.
The opening of the exhibition "Holy Abode: On the 600th Anniversary of the Solovetsky Monastery" was also attended by Arkhangelsk Region Governor Alexander Tsybulsky, First Deputy Minister of Culture Sergei Obryvalin, and others.
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