The Russian Academy Of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts invites you to attend a creative meeting with the Archimandrite Tikhon to be held within the Academy’s project “Art and Religion in the Space of Modern Culture”. The Archimandrite Tikhon is an Executive Secretary of the Patriarch’s Council for Culture, Alderman of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery, author of the book “Non-Holy Saints” and films “The Fall of the Empire. The Byzantine Lesson” and “The Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery”. The creative meeting will take place in Tsereteli Art Gallery, 19 Prechistenka street, Moscow at 04 pm on June 21, 2013.

The creative meeting will be accompanied by a demonstration of his films that is to start at 12.00 midday in the halls of the exhibition project “Art and Religion in the Space of Modern Culture” (Tsereteli Art Gallery).

The Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) was born in Moscow on July 02, 1958. In 1982 he graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. After graduation he became a lay brother of the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery. In 1991 he took vows at the Moscow Donskoy Monastery and in the same year was consecrated hierodeacon and later celebrated priest. In 1993 he was appointed a Father Superior of the Moscow town church of the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery located in the former Sretensky Monastery. Since 1996 – Father Superior of the Sretensky Monastery, since 1997 – Archimandrite. He is also a Rector of the Sretensky Theological Seminary, Head of the publishing house of the Sretensky Monastery and internet portal “Pravoslavie.ru”. The Archimandrite Tikhon is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, as well as author of the film “Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery”, that won Grand Prix at the 12th “Radonezh” International Festival of Orthodox Cinema and TV Programs (Yaroslavl, 2007) and film “The Fall of the Empire. The Byzantine Lesson” – winner of the Golden Eagle Prize of the Russian Film Academy in 2009.





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