Valaam Monastery School of Painting

The article is dedicated to the formation of Valaam’s own school painting for monks and novices monastery. This process consisted several stages connected both historical development monastery itself, as well expanding influence Russian Imperial Academy Arts. official establishment school, which trained artists according academic methods, dates back late 19th – early 20th centuries. entire preceding history paved way inauguration school. In particular, gathered a carefully selected collection engravings reproductions famous religious paintings, art manuals, human anatomy atlases picturesque copies popular works art. Construction new Transfiguration Cathedral, be supposedly painted by artists, provided main impetus eventual opening Gifted Valaam Alipiy (Konstantinov) Luka (Bogdanov), student Arts, V. A. Bondarenko, taught at monastery’s Among some most diligent students were hegumen Gavrill (Gavrilov), proponent its trustee, along with monk Fotiy (Yablokov), future head icon workshop. continued operate until Monastery forced flee Finland result hostilities that broke out in archipelago during Soviet-Finnish war 1939–1940.