The Bohorodchany Iconostasis has withstood religious persecution, revolutions and world wars. Can it survive Russia’s brutal assault? After an attack by Russian forces in late March, smoke rises from ...

Dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Lord, it is a Unesco world heritage site. More important than the Kremlin. It houses the masterpiece of the golden iconostasis. After almost 100 years of ...

At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use ...

In one of the most complex cases to date, according to the antiquities department, the royal iconostasis doors of the church of Ayios Anastasios from Peristeronopigi village in the north have been ...