Wooden Sculptures Of Christian Deities In Perm

Ural Historical Encyclopedia describes the main stages of the historical development of Perm and its main trends in the industry. Tretyakova textbook contains information about the main features of the Perm wooden sculpture and the history of the Christianization of the Perm region. In Soviet times, the cathedral was rebuilt under the picture gallery. Perhaps that is what the cathedral and saved. It did not fit under any technical needs, did not endure. Simply divide the vast inner space of the temple on three floors. They built walls between floors and stairs.

However Perm Krai religions interesting and surprising. At certain times of the ancient religion of the peoples of the Perm region can be called troeveriem. When the territory of the Russian state began to spread Christianity, many of the Komi-Permian in no hurry to accept it. They are very tolerant of the new religion, its gods and objects of worship. And they themselves were committed to first ancient paganism, worshiping the beasts, birds, and natural phenomena. Users create totemic figures of animals: it was believed that each person has a relationship with any animal, approached him, asked for help, and good hunting. Especially popular were the figurines moose, bear, birds. Many of them have survived to the present day. Archaeologists have recovered them in a special cultural layer. The fact that the canonical church was strictly forbidden volume (three-dimensional) image of Christ. In 1722 and 1767 years of the Holy Synod is strictly prohibited volumetric image of Jesus is authorized only by the iconic "flat". In the history of Russia there were two facts voxel shape and face of Jesus Christ.

 Source - northural.ru, sculpture.permonline.ru