The Russian Academy Of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum-Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” invite you to attend the Research and Enlightenment Creative Forum “BYZANTIUM.RU” in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the assumption of St. Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostle  that will take place on the territory of the ancient Chersonesus on July 24 – August 15, 2015.

The main goal of the Forum “Byzantium.Ru” is a creation of a new space open to a dialogue of various generations. In the conditions of secularization, disunity of the modern world and interfaith conflicts the Forum is obtaining a special urgency as it suits the idea of unification and enlightenment in the context of inter-Christian dialogue and cooperation of nations united by the traditions of the Christian culture. The Forum’s participants (more than 100 participants) are professional artists, musicians, film makers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Greece, Serbia.

The Forum has been organized under the auspices of the Administration of the Russian President, the Government of Sevastopol, the Moscow Patriarchate, the Simferopol and Crimean Diocese.  

The Forum’s curators:
Nickolai Mukhin – Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation
Alexei Lidov – Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Director of the Research Center for Eastern Christian Culture
Tatyana Yashaeva – Honored Worker of Culture, Head of the Medieval Art Department of the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric”
  
The major events of the Forum are the “Byzantium.Ru” exhibition (July 26 – August 15, 2015) and International Research Conference “The Second St. Vladimir Readings” to be held on July 24-29, 2015.

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

July 24, 2015 - Friday

Arrival and accommodation of the Conference participants

17.00 – Tour of the Chersonesus Preserve
             Gathering of the participants in the Museum’s courtyard at the fountain

July 25, 2015 – Saturday

08.00 am - Te Deum for the Conference beginning at Chersonesus St. Vladimir Cathedral

09.00-10.00 am – Registration of the Conference participants

10.00 am – OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Welcoming speeches

10.30-13.00 – Morning Plenary Session
Chairman: Yury A. Babinov

Andrey N. Sakharov, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
THE RUSSIAN-BYZANTINE TREATY OF 987 AND VLADIMIR’S MARCH ON CHERSONESUS

Alla I. Romanchuk, the Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
The CAUSES AND RESULTS OF THE KORSUN CAMPAIN IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY

Sergey A. Belyaev, Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
THE CHERSONESUS FONT – THE FONT OF ALL RUSSIA AND SOURSE OF RUSSIAN STATEHOOD

Archpriest Nickolai Donenko (Nizhniaya Oreanda, Russia)  
THE LEGACY OF PRINCE VLADIMIR

12.00-12.15 – Coffee break
Alexey M. Lidov, the Institute of World Culture of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
The NEAVEN ON EARTH. WHAT HAVE PRINCE VLADIMIR’S AMBASSADORS SEEN IN SOPHIA OF CONSTANTINOPLE?  

Elena I. Maleto, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
THE BAPTISM OF RUSSIA AND CIVILIZATIONS PHENOMENON OF RUSSIAN PILGRIMAGE

Nadezhda I. Milyutenko, Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University
KORSUN AND THE RESIDENTS OF KORSUN IN THE LIFE OF RUSSIA: BEFORE AND AFTER THE BAPTISM

Dr. Popovic Marko, Archaeological Institute (Beograd, Serbia)
THE ROYAL FUNERALS IN MEDIEVAL SERBIA (12-14 CENTURIES)

Dr. Popovic Danica, Institute of Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Beograd, Serbia)
THE CULT OF THE HOLY RULER IN MEDIEVAL SERBIA

Rigakou Diamanto, Ephorate of Corfu Antiquities (Corfu, Greece)
MONUMENTS BYZANTINS DU l leme SIECLE A CORFOU

14.00-15.00 – Lunch

15.00-17.30 – Afternoon Session
Chairman: Doctor of History Natalia V. Zhilina

Irina A. Zavadskaya, Research Center for the Crimean History and Archaeology of V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
ON THE DISCUSSION ABOUT REASONS AND SCALES OF THE DESTRUCTIONS IN CHERSONESUS IN THE 10-11th CENTURY

Sergey V. Ushakov, Maxim I. Tyurin, Vadim V, Khanaev, Sergey B. Serebryakov; GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” , the Affiliate of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University in Sevastopol (Sevastopol, Russia)
ON THE 9-10th CENTURY MINT COMPLEXES IN CHERSONESUS

Evgeni Y. Turovsky, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
ON THE ISSUE OF CONSEQUENCES OF PRINCE VLADIMIR’S MARCH ON KORSUN (ON CHRONOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN THE LAYERS OF CHERSON IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 10TH CENTURY)

Roman P. Smirnov, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
ON THE DISCUSSION ABOUT RUSSIAN MARCHES ON CHERSON IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 11TH  CENTURY ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF RECENT EXCAVATIONS

Mickhail M. Choref, Nizhnevartovsky State University (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia)
ON THE ISSUE OF CIRCUMSTANCES OF COMING INTO CIRCULATION OF BRONZES WITH MONOGRAM “кВи” ON THE OBVERSE

16.15-16.30 – Coffee break

Sergey B. Philimonov, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Sevastopol, Russia)
CHERSONESUS AND ITS SACRED OBJECTS IN THE FIRST POST REVOLUTION YEARS

Vadim N. Prokopenkov, Public entity “Sevastopol Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
PHILANTHROPISTS AND TRUSTEES OF THE CHERSONESUS ST. VLADIMIR MONASTERY

Andrey V. Shamanaev, Institute of the Humanities and Arts, the Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
ST. VLADIMIR MONASTERY IN CHERSONESUS: THE FORMATION AND COMPOSITION OF THE COLLECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th – EARLY 20th  CENTURY  


July 26, 2015 - Sunday

06.30 am – Early Divine Liturgy in the Church of Seven St. Martyrs

10.00-13.00 – Morning Session
Chairman: Doctor of History Vadim V. Maiko

Howard Jeremy, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)
PICTURING AND FRAMING VLADIMIR: AN ANALYSIS OF PRINCE VLADIMIR’S ARTISTIC PRESENCE AND ABSENCE FROM 1770 TO 1914

Elena V. Pitateleva, Yaroslav V. Litvinenko; the National Kiev and Pechersky Historical and Cultural Preserve (Kiev, Ukraine)
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF PRINCE VLADIMIR EQUAL TO THE APOSTLE BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE LAVRA’S ARTWORKS

Natalia V. Zhilina, Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
THE BYZANTINE INFLUENCE ON THE 9th – 10th CENTURY RUSSIAN PRINCE’S ATTIRE

Tatyana V. Oleinik, V. Karamzin Kharkov National University (Kharkov, Ukraine)
ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE MONUMENTS OF SACRAL MONUMENTAL PAINTING OF THE BYZANTINE CHERSON (ATTEMPT IN READING THE ICONOGRAPHIC TYPE)

Vasili G. Putsko, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Kaluga, Russia)
KIEV RUSSIA AFTER THE BAPTISM: FORMATION OF THE SACRAL ART

Mickhail N. Butyrsky, Nadezhda A. Selunskaya; the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow, Russia), Center for Intellectual History (Moscow, Russia)
N. P. KONDAKOV’S STUDY OF THE GRAND DUCAL PERIOD ANTIQUITIES IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SCIENCE

11.30-11.45 – Coffee break

Liudmila G. Khrushkova, M. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
THE BISHOP BASILICA IN CHERSONESUS TAURIC: ARCHITECTURE, DÉCOR, LITURGY DEVICES

Victor G. Samoilenko, Alexey V. Tokarev; GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
THE TEMPLE ON THE ARCHES IN CHERSONESUS TAURIC (THE RESULTS OF STUDIES AND RESTORATION IN 2014)

Alexander I. Aibabin, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
THE QUARTER CHAPELS OF ESKI-KERMEN

Alexander G. Herzen, Valeri E. Naumenko, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
ON THE STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF MANGUP: THE CHURCH OF ST. CONSTANTINE
13.00-15.00- Lunch

15.00 – Opening of the Scientific and Enlightenment Creative Forum “BYZANTIUM.RU”
Gathering at the Preserve’s Central entrance

July 27, 2015 - Monday

10.00-13.00 – Morning Session
Chairman: Doctor of History Alla I. Romanchuk

Vera N. Zalesskaya, the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia)
THE BYZANTINE BRONZE BLUEBELL WITH THE SACRAL INSCRIPTION   FROM CHERSONESUS

Tatyana Y. Yashaeva, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
OLD RUSSIAN PECTORAL CROSSES AND IMAGES IN THE BYZANTINE CHERSONESUS

Elzara A. Khairedinova, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
CROSSES FROM ESKI-KERMEN

Victor N. Chkhaidze, Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
OBJECTS OF PERSONAL DEVOTION IN MEDIEVAL MATARKHA

Valeri E. Naumenko, Leonid Y. Ponomarev, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
ABOUT ONE FORGOTTEN CHRISTIAN RELIC FROM KERCH: THE BYZANTINE STONE ICON FROM THE “NEW QUARANTINE” DISTRICT

11.30-11.45 – Coffee break

Elena A. Denisova, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
WOOD-WORKING TOOLS FROM CHERSONESUS EXCAVATIONS: RUSSIAN PARALLELS

Valentin V.  Doroshko, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
FRAGMENTS OF THE 10th CENTURY LAMELLAR BODY ARMOR        FROM CHERSONESUS EXCAVATIONS  

Olga P. Doroshko, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)  
THE WINDOW GLASS FROM EXCAVATIONS OF THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE BASILICA OF KRUSE

Olga A. Andreeva, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
THE GRIFFIN ON THE BONE PLATE FROM CHERSONESUS

13.00-15.00 – Lunch

15.00-18.00 – Afternoon Session
Chairman: Doctor of History Sergey B. Philimonov

PRESENTATIONS:

Lyubov V. Ulyanova
“THE SELF-KNOWLEDGE” magazine: Sacral Geography. Places of Memory. The Crimea. 2015 №1

Vadim N. Prokopenkov
Documental and historical edition: ST. VLADIMIR MONASTERY IN CHERSONESUS. 2015

Yury A. Babinov, the Sevastopol State University (Sevastopol, Russia)
ST. VLADIMIR AND RUSSIAN-POLISH RELATIONS IN THE 10th – 11th CENTURY

Vadim V. Maiko, Institute of the Crimean Archeology (Simferopol, Russia)
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE EASTERN CRIMEA AFTER THE DEATH OF PRINCE VLADIMIR  


Victor N. Zinko,  Alexey V. Zinko; V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
ON THE ISSUE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN THE BOSPORAN CITY OF TIRITAKA

Elena A. Zinko, Victor N. Zinko, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
THE FORMATION OF THE BOSPORAN DIOCESE



Alexander A. Romensky, School of Arts of the Kharkov City Council (Kharkov, Ukraine)
IZHBERN-ANASTAS OF KORSUN: ON THE PERSONALITY OF ONE OF THE KEY FIGURES OF THE KORSUN LEGEND

Yury A. Artamonov, Institute of General History (Moscow, Russia)
MONKHOOD IN RUSSIA AFTER THE OFICIAL BAPTISM: GENERAL DEVELOPMENT TENDENCES

16.30-16.45 – Coffee break

Nikita I. Khrapunov, V. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol, Russia)
THE CRIMEAN TRAVELLORS OF THE LATE 18th – EARLY 19th CENTURY IN SEARCH OF THE PLACE OF PRINCE VLADIMIR’S BAPTISM

Tatyana A. Prokhorova, GBU of Culture of Sevastopol, the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric” (Sevastopol, Russia)
WILLIAM SIMPSON’S SECOND TRIP TO TAURIDA (ON THE ISSUE OF HIS VISITS TO THE HOLY PLACES IN HERSONESUS AND INKERMAN)

Liudmila O. Grinenko (Sevastopol, Russia)
WILLIAM  SIMPSON’S ENGRAVING OF 1855 THROUGH THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF ST. VLADIMIR MONASTERY IN CHERSONESUS

Nadezhda I. Shutova, the Udmurtia Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Urals Brunch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Izhevsk, Russia)
ON THE BEGINNING OF INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIAN IDEAS IN KAMSKO-VYATSKY REGION


July 28, 2015 - TUESDAY

06.00 am – Religious procession from St. Vladimir Cathedral on the Central city hill to St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesus

08.00 am – Divine Liturgy in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesus

11.00 am – Tour of the Bakhchysarai Assumption Monastery. Gathering at the Preserve’s Central entrance

18.00 pm – Concert in the National Preserve “Chersonesus Tauric”


July 29, 2015 – WESNESDAY

Departure of the Conference participants


 

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