Didactic meaning of the Picturesque and Icon image in the Spiritual and Moral Education (Alexander Prostev: image blessed Ksenia)
In the article the artistic image in the Russian church and secular painting, created in the course of several centuries, is compared, and its didactic meaning in the spiritual and moral education of contemporary schoolboys is analyzed. In the article the works of Petersburg artist and iconographer A. Prostev are examined. Prostev’s works (series, dedicated by blessed Ksenia and the painting of holy Ksenia temple on the Petrograd side in Saint Petersburg) are given as examples of their use in the occupations in the secular educational organizations and is described the experience of the familiarizing of schoolboys with the values of the orthodox culture through the aesthetical perception and the value comprehension.