ON RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF THE EXTERIOR AND THE ICONOSTASIS OF THE TOMSK FACTORY CHURCH OF THE XVIII CENTURY
Basis of a reconstruction of the project of appearance and iconostasis of the first church of Tomsk plant of steel is not only on documents in which the iconographic content of the monument is presented. In archive data on pigments are the paints used in decoration of an exterior of the temple, the project with the coloristic solution of an iconostasis remained. The author of the project is Ivan Chernitsyn, well-known disciple of inventor I. I. Polzunov. Except the above project, Chernitsyn is an author of projects of churches of Barnaul in honor of prophet Ioann Predtecha and the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign. The remained description of the finished iconostasis is important for reconstruction. Full coincidence of the main characteristics, confirms reliability, accessory and implementation of this project. The iconostasis of Tomsk factory church according to the drawing, had the frame system, the closed, metric type. Work is based as on the remained monuments of an iconography of the specified period which are in museums and temples of Siberia. The iconographic contents, despite the small volume of an iconostasis, considerable. Over a local row are located by Dvunadesyatye Prazdniki. The apostolic rank, was moved by a peculiar way on an Imperial Gate. Here, together with it is general traditional Evangelists, are located Jesus Christ’s ten more next followers. From both parties from the Imperial gate icons are put: “Coming of the Holy Spirit on Apostles” and “In three persons of the Holy Trinity”. Both plots have a direct bearing on an event in honor of which the church is consecrated. However lack of an icon of the Theotokos in a local row is included into disagreement with the standard traditions of the last centuries. The iconography of curbstones is dictated by the above-located plots. To “Trinity” there corresponds the image of an event explaining and subsequent to it as the Genesis speaks. On a curbstone, below an icon of a local row are represented: “Abraham hospitality” and “phenomenon of Angels Lota”. Under image of Pentecost the Babel plot is placed. In Church these events are opposed each other. Plots of other curbstones reveal the main events from life above the standing sacred. The art solution of an iconostasis is presented in I. Chernitsyn’s project. The general background of an iconostasis is light green. The carving of the frames bordering games, is filled with curls of the wrong form, and as wavy motives. Frames are covered with mosaic gold. Capitals of columns are made also this way. The columns located between icons, coloristic are marbled. Over the Imperial and diaconal Gate cherubs are placed. In the course of work on capitals of columns there appear angels. The stylistic solution of an iconostasis is made within baroque, however “marble” columns, strict partitioning of ranks by eaves point to classicism influence. Reconstruction of the project of appearance and iconostasis of Tomsk factory church, thanks to archival documents, is the most complete idea of decorative furniture of a complex.