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    An Icon in Wars
    (Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2025) Komashko, Natalia ; Gergova, Ivanka
    The Shipka Monastery preserves an unpublished icon of the Virgin Mary appearing to St. Sergius of Radonezh,which has a long chronicle inscription telling the story of the original icon in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and its participation in a series of wars. The copy in the Shipka Monastery was probably worked in the Lavra after the middle of the 19th century. A number of features of the original icon can be described as rare or unique. The inscriptions with accounts of the icon’s participation in military actions, added gradually on the icon, covering the period from 1585 to 1855, are unique to the Russian tradition.
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    From Petersburg to Shipka via Mount Athos: Slavic Saints on the Shipka Iconostasis
    (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2024-10-31) Gergova, Ivanka
    The article explores the images of Slavic saints on the iconostasis of the Russian Memorial Church in the town of Shipka in Bulgaria, which were completed in 1899–1901 at the Russian Saint Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos. Its main objective is to analyze the iconostasis’s conceptual framework, the meanings behind the selection of the saints, as well as the main iconographical models utilized. The Committee for the Construction of the Memorial Church and its chairperson Count Nikolay Ignatyev conceived of one tier of images of saints depicting the heroes of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, while a number small icons would feature local Bulgarian and Slavic saints that were to be selected by the monks themselves. The icon painting monks mainly relied on Archbishop Philaret of Chernigov’s book The Saints of the Southern Slavs with engravings by academician Fedor Solntsev as the main source and model for their depictions of saints.
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    Russian Orthodox Art in the Bulgarian Lands from the 16th until the Late 19th Century
    (Muzeul Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia, 2020-04-04) Gergova, Ivanka
    Dès le milieu du XXe siècle, les chercheurs bulgares s’intéressent à l’étude des œuvres d’art religieux russe qui sont arrivées dans l’aire culturelle bulgare; mais ces études n’ont jamais été menées de manière intensive. Les futures approches devront collecter, cataloguer et étudier les collections plus importantes d’icônes, d’estampes et d’objets russes de culte, en rassemblant toutes les informations nécessaires qui concernent les modalités d’acqui- sition de ces objets, leurs donateurs et leurs histoires individuelles. Une attention particulière devra être accordée aux peintres russes qui ont vécu en Bulgarie, ainsi qu’aux Bulgares qui ont étudié les arts en Russie, sachant que ces derniers ont peint des icônes après le retour en Bulgarie. L’influence de l’art orthodoxe russe sur les sujets abordés et les styles utilisés dans l’art bulgare pourra compléter ce panorama. La présente étude se propose de faire le bilan des recherches en cours.