Кафедра Петропавловского собора в Санкт-Петербурге: иконографическая программа
The Pulpit of Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg: the iconographic program

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the pictorial decoration of the pulpit of Stt. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. It examines the iconographic origins of the pulpit and offers the analysis of its decoration content. The lost inscriptions on the pulpit panels are reconstructed as the texts of Scripture known from the first descriptions of Stt. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The subject matter of one of the panels is attributed as the «Prophecy of Jeremiah». The author suggested a version regarding the plot painted on the lost door of the pulpit. The pulpit decoration represents the Russian top theological ideas of the first third of 18th century. It is proved that the archbishop Pheophan Prokopovich was the author, at least, of a number of subjects depicted, and also of the idea and iconographic programme of the main pulpit.

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