The audioguide tells the story, identifies the architecture and reports interesting facts about the church of Dormition, founded in 1352.

The church of the Dormition was originally monasterial. Towards the end of the 17th century, the monastery begun to depopulate. In 1764, it dropped its status as well as the cathedral became a parish. The renovations made during the years were not stateradical, the original architectural forms were cut off with intense accuracy as well as the frescoes had been almost completely about Dormition Church in the Volotovo field. Velikiy Novgorod. Russia conserved. By the summertime of 1941, restoration works acquired reached perfection, but the battle blocked the functions. The cathedral, finding itself over the frontline was subjected to bombing and enemy fire.

Following the war, a special commission declared it irretrievably lost. In 1955 its ruins were declared like a patrimony to be safeguarded.

In 1993, several restorers, in Novgorod, began renovating the church. The wall space and pillars have been preserved in heights, ranging from 2 to 4 m, and about 40 square meters of frescoes were on the lower sections.

In the apse, below, an older level of painting was found, dating further back than the entire pictorial complex. Relating to some scholars, this historic layer goes back to 1352, the year the church was built, while the pictorial complex of the complete church, according to the Chronicle of Novgorod, goes back to 1363 Others prolong the temporal limitations of the looks of frescoes in the church from the Dormition: the oldest goes back to 1363, and the task was completed between the ’80s and’ 90s of the XIVcentury. The unfamiliar author of chapel frescoes, such as for example Theophane the Greek, was linked to the Byzantine traditions from the Paleologist period: its frescoes had been sketched quickly.

You can examine the 3D style of the chapel and observe its interior, through the MuByz App. The audioguide has been made by experts in the field of history and art.