Medyntseva A.A.

Key words: cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the monastery of St. Anthony, beginning of the 12th c., drawings, painters, autograph.
The article publishes part of the drawings and inscriptions on the walls of the stair turret in the cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the monastery of St. Anthony in Novgorod. The drawings and inscriptions were left by the painters who worked in the cathedral in the 12th c. Similar drawings and inscriptions are found in other churches in Novgorod: St. Sophia cathedral, the cathedral in St. George monastery (11th–12th cc.) and the more recent cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Gorodnya (15th c.). Integrated study of the drawings and inscriptions shows that they are not an exception, and their careful restoration helps increase our sources on the everyday culture and the artistic process in the Middle Ages.