Abstract
The article publishes for the first time archival photos of the icons of the lost iconostasis of the 1670s of the Dormition Cathedral of the Yelets Monastery in Chernihiv, as well as a description of this iconostasis and related historical research, which was carried out in 1916 by the outstanding art critic Stephan Taranushenko, at that time a student of Kharkiv university. The exceptional value of the published materials is because S. Taranushenko was the last researcher who examined and described the monument in detail before its destruction in the 1920s. Currently, it is believed that all parts of the iconostasis and its icons have been destroyed, so the only source of information about their appearance is the photographs made by S. Taranushenko. In addition, the published materials contain information about the history of renovations and descriptions of the iconostasis of the 18th-19th century, which S. Taranushenko discovered in 1916 while working with archival documents stored in the Yelets Monastery. Since the fate of the monastery archives is unknown, the text of S. Taranushenko can be considered the only preserved source on the history of the iconostasis until the beginning of the 20th century.
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