Holy Simplicity

Author: Kriklovensky Y.M.
Year of publication: 1960
Size (WxH): 51x40 cm
Price: 61200 ₽

Author's colour linogravure. Artist Kriklovensky Y. M. Designed at the Graphic Arts Center in Moscow. The author has worked for several years as a key artist of the Historical Museum of Moscow. All his pictures are historically accurate. The linocut conveys the beauty of the outskirts of Voronezh from which the artist himself was born. Wooden structures, a manor house, ponds lost in an overgrown park, and the building of a water tower; in the upper left corner of the engraving rises the "Temple by the Name of the Venerable Alexius, the Man of God" with its green roofs and red facades, proclaiming that it is dedicated to the Christian martyr. The church is located in the village of Repnoye (Voronezh's Zheleznodorozhny district). More than three centuries ago, in 1764, the church was sanctified and began ringing its bells.  Archimandrite Dmitry (Sambikin) described the exterior of the church as follows: "The church is of ancient architecture. The bell tower connected to the church and the space under the bell tower is a porch uncovered because the bell tower supported by four columns". On the right side of the church in honour of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God. Many of Yuri Kriklovensky's works reflect the theme of Orthodoxy.