Memorial service for Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

On this day, a memorial service for Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov was held on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his death on July 23, 1926. Igor Valeryevich Gurov, director of the Charitable Foundation in Memory of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, came to honor the memory of Viktor Mikhailovich together with the descendants of the Vasnetsovs, their relatives and employees of the Vasnetsov House Museum at the grave. The memorial service was served by Archimandrite Dionysius, rector of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity of the Moscow Trinity Monastery of the Holy Trinity Lavra. A modest tombstone erected on the artist's grave at the Vvedenskoye cemetery depicts an Orthodox cross and a knight at the crossroads. The inscription is embossed on the plate: Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov 1848-1926. Academician of painting, architect, wall painter, theater decorator, illustrator. To this concise description, you can add many more wonderful words about the talent and personality of Viktor Mikhailovich, about how much good and kind he left to us, his descendants! Remember, O Lord, your servant Victor in Your Kingdom!