St. Theophanes the Greek’s frescoes in the process of being restored near Novgorod

More than 2,000 trays are stored in the Novgorod Museum. They contain hundreds of thousands of broken fragments of wall paintings from the Church of the Transfiguration in Ilyin, near Novgorod. And researchers are preparing to restore the frescoes, all the works of Saint Theophanes the Greek. These paintings had been considered lost until the 1970s, when Mikhail Karger, a Soviet historian and archaeologist, began to excavate in the sanctuary