Grave of Russian art historian Nikodim Kondakov in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, born on November 1 (13), 1844, was an art historian, with special expertise in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts and the Russian Academy of Sciences and founded modern method in the history of the art of the Byzantine Empire. Nikodim Kondakov lived in exile in Czechoslovakia after the Bolshevik Revolution and died at age 80 on February 4 (17), 1925. The Dormition chu
Grave of Russian art historian Nikodim Kondakov in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, born on November 1 (13), 1844, was an art historian, with special expertise in Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts and the Russian Academy of Sciences and founded modern method in the history of the art of the Byzantine Empire. Nikodim Kondakov lived in exile in Czechoslovakia after the Bolshevik Revolution and died at age 80 on February 4 (17), 1925. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
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