The Tretyakov Gallery wants to further agree on the conditions for the storage of “Trinity”

The Tretyakov Gallery will prepare an additional act on the conditions for the storage of the Holy Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev. The document will regulate the observance of the necessary conditions for the preservation of the relic, reported Forbes in the Tretyakov Gallery. Specialists-restorers participate in drawing up the act.

According to them, there are several important issues that need to be resolved, including who will be the guarantor of compliance with the conditions for storing the icon and what leverage is there in case of non-compliance with them.

“According to the current agreement with the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the showcase with the icon had to be opened and inspected by our restorers twice in a month of extension. Until this happened. The patriarch did not bless,” a source in the Tretyakov Gallery told Forbes.

In May, the Russian Orthodox Church informedthat President Vladimir Putin decided to return the Trinity to her. The icon has been kept in the Tretyakov Gallery since 1929. Now she is in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and will remain there until July 18.

There, as Forbes previously reported, the icon is in an ordinary glass showcase, similar to the one in which it was usually exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery. This showcase protects the icon only from mechanical impact, but there is no special microclimate inside.

July, 12 was concluded agreement on the transfer of the Trinity to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra for 49 years with the possibility of extension. Lavra will now be responsible for its condition, and the Center for them will be responsible for creating the necessary storage conditions for the icon. Grabar.

Despite the transfer of the “Trinity” to the Lavra for free use, it remains in the “operational management of the Tretyakov Gallery”, where the icon was kept.

Read more in the publication “Kommersant” ““The current story with the “Trinity” is primarily an ideology””.

Maria Fedotova