Personality reflection of the old believer M.I. Chuvanov and the artist T.A. Mavrina in their collection of icons
There are two collections of icons in the Department of Private Collections - the M.I. Chuvanov collection and the T.A. Mavrina collection. Despite the fact that the time of their formation is the 20th century and the subject of the collections is icon, the collections differ significantly: the personalities of the collectors - the old believer and the artist - impacted their collections in full. Mikhail I. Chuvanov was a chairman of the Preobrazhensky congregation of Old Believers, a bibliophile and a palaeographer. The collection includes icons from the middle of the 15th century to the early 20th century. The icons correspond to the canons of the Old Russian icon painting. Tatyana A. Mavrina was a painter, a graphic artist, an illustrator. The collection includes the icons of the 15th - 17th century - the icons of “northern writing”, and the icons of Novgorod and Moscow icon painting. The research includes wonderful samples of icons, which characterize the personalities of the collectors most brightly: M.I. Chuvanov found and saved prayer images for descendants of the icons; T.A. Mavrina with her love to colour collected icons-pictures, icons-tales.