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Traditions of restoration were founded by the Commission on Protection of History and Art Monuments of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. Together with the registration and investigation of the collections there started restoration of the architectural monuments and Old Russian painting. In subsequent years the restoration of the Museum items was carried out by the Museum workers and by the representatives of the specialized organizations (All-Union Grabar Artistic and Scientific Restoration Center and All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Restoration. Restoration of textiles began in 1919, when the workshop supervised by T.N. Alexandrova-Dolnik, was organized. Being a branch of the Grabar Restoration Center, the workshop is still on the Museum territory. M.P. Ryabova, A.N. Belyakova and (still working) T.A. Goroshko’s remarkable talents permitted to restore and display unique monuments: palls with the images of St. Sergius and Alexander Nevsky, shroud of Staritsky, various icon-cloths. They reconstructed and really revived the articles from the Godunov family vault and numerous works of folk art. In the mid-1970s, the Sergiev Posad State History and Art Museum-Reserve established a special department for restoration of the museum items. At present it includes restorers of tempera painting – O.B. Kutsel (2d category) and O.S. Voskresenskaya (3d category); restorers of oil painting – L.A. Grechina (1st category), P.B. Ostrovsky (2d category); restorers of textiles – N.N. Shelonnikova (higher category), N.V. Grekova (2d category); metal restorer – E.S. Romashkina.

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