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Dear Friends!

Take a trip to our virtual museum during your coffee or tea break and make your #quarantinediscoveries!
Admire unique cultural assets of the Museum Fund of Ukraine!

We present to your attention the Phelonion of 1749. It is an outstanding monument of Ukrainian Baroque art and great example of the work of the Kyiv-Florivskyi Ascension Convent.
A Phelonion is the priest’s vestment that looks like a mantle. In liturgical symbolics, a Phelonion means chlamys, the royal outer garment, in which Jesus Christ was dressed during Pilate's judgment.
The presented Phelonion was made for the vestry of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, at the request of Princess Natalya Dolgorukova (1714–1771). She was daughter of Count Borys Petrovych Sheremetyev, a generous supporter of Lavra. In 1757, Princess took the veil in the Kyiv-Florivskyi Ascension Convent under the name of Nektariya. Natalya Dolgorukova was buried in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in 1771, as evidenced by a memorial tombstone at the western entrance to the Dormition Cathedral.
The biggest progress of the gold-embroidery workshops of the Kyiv-Florivskyi Ascension Convent took place in 1720–1770. At this time, a number of innovative works were created there, often becoming a model for imitation. In particular, Florivskyi craftswomen have introduced and actively developed techniques for imitation of precious fabrics by means of embroidery. The Phelonion of 1749 was made of canvas entirely embroidered with metal and silk threads in the style of a French brocade fabric of the late 17th century.
The Phelonion has been kept in the collection of the Preserve since 1920s of the 20th century.
In 2001-2004 it was restored by fine art restorer I. Chernokapska.

The object being a real work of art, more than once decorated the best exhibitions of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve.
Let’s #stayathome and discover the beauties of the Preserve’s collection together!

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