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Hi,
The painting in question (Appearance of Christ to the people) is found in the Tretyakov Gallery in downtown Moscow and is a must see in person if you can swing it. Here is the website for some more info. on the painter Ivanov (bottom of the page) http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/english/150.shtml.
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The picture hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery on metro Tretyakovskaya. The book I purchased has quite an extensive history in it of this particular artist and painting. I'd be happy to type it up if you need the info. Definitely one of the most impressive paintings in the gallery.
An excerpt from a website says "At about 1833 Ivanov conceived a plan to paint a large picture The Appearance of Christ to the People (1837-1857). This picture truly became the work of his life, he worked on it for twenty years. Over 100 sketches, numerous detail drawings, and large-scale designs, most of them in oil, preceded the monumental composition. Its size is 540 x 750 cm (18' x 25'). In the foreground of the picture there is a number of male figures, some already undressed, awaiting to be baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. While John the Baptist, in his garb of animal skin under a long mantle, a crosier in his left hand, turns and raises his arms dramatically towards the lone figure of Christ, who appears on a rocky rise in the middle ground, behind him a broad plain and distant mountains"
http://www.abcgallery.com/I/ivanov/ivanov23.html
Good luck!
Nate Wright
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Scott Matson answered with this:
I can't remember the name of the Museum in Moscow, but when I visited it while on my mission, I purchased a copy of this piece. If it is the one I am thinking, it is called A.A Ivanov's Appearance of the Christ to the People, and here is a link to view it.
http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/slav/studies/huttunen/mosaiikki/en/own-alien/extras/ivano001_opt_tif.jpg
You can copy or cut and paste that link to view it.
I hope this helps.
Scott
Thanks Scott
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Dear Sirs,
When my son Everett Ulbricht was in Moscow on his LDS mission in 1996 and 1997, President Chappel, his mission president, gave a talk about a particular painting that hung in a Moscow museum. This painting was said to depict the risen Savior appearing to the Slavic people. And, this
painting may be more than 200 years old.
I would like to know more about this painting. Can someone at the mission tell me the name of the painting, the painter, the museum that is showing the painting, its age, etc? Is there a photograph of the painting that is available on the internet? Any information that you can send would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You and Kind Regards,
Bill Ulbricht
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Hey, I just got an e-mail from Sister Beus (President Beus' wife, he is the mission president of the RMM) and here are the good on the boundary changes. This is a direct copy and paste job, so there is some humor in it for all of you who know Sis. Beus!
The bottom line of it all is this: Pres. N. after 2 years of chewing on it like a dog on a bone has decided the reason Moscow is so slow to grow is that our branches are TOO BIG. We need more branches and they need to be smaller and more dynamic. He also wants Moscow to be flooded with misisonaries; Moscow is where we need to concentrate our efforts as this will be the center of Russia forever. THis will be the temple site and there are 15 million people here for pete's sake. So after months of meetings and a lOT of prez' time and elders' time making detailed maps of boundaries and church population, including inactives and actives, the missions have been realigned. The south mission (now clled the WEst MIssion) came in and took Tagansky, Kakhovsky, and Arbatsky branches. They also got Tver (gulp) and Lotoshino which has been closed to full time missionaries. we have only had one baptism in that tiny ilttle branch in the 2 years we've been here and we just can't afford to keep a set of fulltime elders there. We kept Rechnoi, Z grad, INternational and Sokolniki branches and we also inherited the entire country of Kazakhstan where we have one thriving little branch in Almaty (that's where we were last week and we had SUCH a good time) and plans to begin another in Astina, the capital, in a few months. This makes our mission an expansion mission, and we have had our long suffering assistants ELder Palmer and Siddoway playing real estate agents for months. We have homes taht double as pomescheniya in Lobnya, Mitishi, with 2 more on track in Ramenskoye and somewhere else. We are beginning little branches in each of these outer cities where our members now have to travel 2 hours one way into moscow for church. Thing is, this kind of represents a turn around in policy since it was just 3 years ago that the then area presidency combined all these branches into the huge branches you knew on your misison, lost a lot of members in the process, but it was done in the interest of being ready to create a stake. Well, the statistics are in and we could be a stake, but Pres N. says it is folly to make one stake in Moscow; we need at least 2 stakes to begin with. So instead of having one stake now, we are hoping for 2 stakes in 5 years or less. So now we have two districts in Moscow and the other mission has half the city. The south mission kept Belarus. But we got Kazakhstan. We swapped missionaries in Tver and Kazakhstan; they got ours and we got theirs. Visas t Kazakhstan cost about 600.00 each and we coudln't justify the expenditure of that kind of money. IN addition, despite assurances that this would NOT happen, it did happen; we had to give them 4 missionaries in order for them to take over and do the job in the south. Sigh. That' was the pits. But we are excited about our little branches on the east side of Moscow and we are still hoping, EVENTUALLY, to split the branch in Nizhni; the signing of the building has dragged on, literally, for more than half a year and the service center still has am onth of renovation to do once we sign. It is very frustrating. So, it's like we have a whole new mission. We feel quite protective of our little branches, the legal d epartment is holding its breath with the renting of these large private homes that will house the missionaries and provide meeting houses for these new branches. Anything out of the ordinary causes the legal department ot hyperventilate and Russian law makers to get their dander up. We are just tyring to fly under the radar
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This news has come to me very late, so I'm sorry that I'm just trying to post this the day before, but...
Saturday, July 22nd a bunch of Russia/Ukraine RMs and others will be getting together to play Gatorball at Georgetown University inside the District.
Dan Degener of the Ukraine Kiev mission is the organizer of the event and will be gathering people at the Rosslyn Metro station at 8:30 am. And walk over to the field from there. If you have questions about playing you can call him at 801-309-6644.
If you plan to get there on your own we're looking to start playing at the field on top of (above? I don't really know G-Town very well) Yates Field House between 9 and 9:15 am.
If you're around DC and want to play then come on down. Hope to see you there!
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New Area presidencies, effective August 15, 2006, were announced in the "Church News" of June 10, 2006. President Dennis B. Neuenschwander will continue as president of the East Europe Area, of which the Russia Moscow Mission is a part. President Neuenschwander is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and has a doctorate in Russian literatuare. Elder Paul Pieper, who was the second counselor in the Area presidency, has been called to be the first counselor. President Pieper is an attorney and has been president of the Russia St. Petersburg Mission. The new second counselor is Elder Larry W. Gibbons. Elder Gibbons, called to the Second Quorum of Seventh in April 2006. This is the "Church News" biography printed at the time: "Elder Gibbons, 63, was a gospel doctrine teacher in the Richardson 2nd Ward, Richardson Texas Stake. He attended Stanford University, earned his medical degree from the University of Utah and a master of public health degree from Harvard University. He is a practicing physician and president of a medical clinic. He is a former Area Seventy, regional representative, stake president, counselor in a stake presidency and seminary teacher. He and his wife, LaDawn Anderson Gibbons, are the parents of two children." Jo Ellen Ashworth
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The following information regarding mailing packages to Russia came from Sister Pulsipher, mother of Sister Pulsipher (who will be completing her mission in February 2006).
1. Sister Pulsipher has sent lots of packages to her daughter, and they have all arrived.
2. There is no rhyme or reason to the amount of time a package takes to get there--it's anywhere between two weeks and three months.
3. Christmas of 2004, Sister Pulsipher sent her daughter a big Christmas package--and it didn't get there in time for Christmas. That was very traumatic.
4. Smaller packages seem to arrive more quickly than larger packages. Christmas of 2005, Sister Pulsipher sent her daughter Christmas presents in three separate, smaller packages, and they got there in time for Christmas. (In the U.S., packages weighing less than 4 lbs. have a different customs slip than packages weighing more than 4 lbs.)
5. This is the address to which packages should be addressed:
Elder/Sister Firstname Surname
Russia Moscow Mission
Moskva #101000
Galvpochtampt a/ai 257
Moscow
Russia
Do NOT send packages to Vrubelya Street #1; Metro Sokol; 125080 Moscow; Russia. This address was included in the mission-call papers my niece received, but it’s an out-of-date address. If the package is sent there, it is forwarded to a “service center”, and the missionary has to pick it up in person.
Hope this helps.
Jo Ellen Ashworth
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Elder Grant's family is hosting a reunion for Pres. and Sis. Young. It will be this Sunday Nov. 6 at 6pm (dinner will be served.) The address is: 2625 Old Orchard Circle, Holladay UT If you need directions or more info email Jon Grant or Amy Danielson at amynz98@hotmail.com. See ya there!
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Pres. Young will be in the SLC/Provo area in November so Grant and Danielson are putting together something for the 3rd (Sunday night). they are trying to decide whether to have it in the Highland/Provo area or in SLC and they are also trying to see how many people will want to come, so if you want to go, send Amy an email at
amynz98@hotmail.com and let her know.
Thanks,
Alicia
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