Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Iconographic Tradition of Prienisei Siberia: Notes on the History of Formation and Regional Specifics

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (12)
Authors
Asochakova, Valentina N.; Chistanova, Svetlana S.
Contact information
Asochakova, Valentina N. : Katanov Khakass State University Abakan, Russian Federation; chistanovass2417@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0002-5714-3729; Chistanova, Svetlana S. : Katanov Khakass State University Abakan, Russian Federation; asocvn@mail.ru; ORCID: 0000-0003-1347-7302
Keywords
religious landscape; the Prienisei Siberia the Khakass-Minusinsk region; the Khakass, icon-painting; icon; Krasnoyarsk school of icon painting; “Siberian Baroque”
Abstract

This article examines an element of the religious landscape of Prienisei Siberia in the 18th and 19th centuries as the decoration of Orthodox churches. During this period, the Russian Orthodox population was more than twice as large as the indigenous population. The indigenous population is the Khakasses, they are the most ancient inhabitants of the Khakass-Minusinsk territory. The iconostasis was the main ornament of an Orthodox church. The iconostasis is a wall with three doors, on which several rows of icons were placed; it separates the altar from the central part. The icon was the most convenient and understandable part of the religious cult. The Orthodox of Siberia only knew about 40 of the huge majority of the saints. In the pre-revolutionary period, several centers of iconography were formed in Siberia. The authors pay special attention to the formation of the Krasnoyarsk iconography school and the influence of the South Russian style, the St. Petersburg and Moscow art schools on it. Archive materials allow us to note the rise of folk icon-painting in the second half of the 19th century; the authors link it with the migration movement after the abolition of serfdom. An analysis of the sources leads to the conclusion that the religious landscape of the southern Prienisei region changed during this period. The need of the big region for a large number of temple and house icons was caused by the spread of Orthodoxy. This led to the emergence and development of the art of church decoration in Siberia. A regional specific of the icon painting tradition of Prienisei Siberia is the “Siberian baroque”, which is characterized by borrowing themes from Central Russian and Southern Russian icons, and producing new themes with ethnic motifs of the indigenous population

Pages
2097–2103
EDN
XJAUVI
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152370

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