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Dadivank Souvenir was created in honor of Dadivank Monastery of Artsakh and depicts a fragment of a 13th century fresco printed on a stylized wood piece and placed in a special packaging box. The souvenir box has explanatory texts in four languages, as well as a booklet with pictures from Dadivank Monastery and the fresco in full, again in four languages.
The history of the fresco depicting St. Nicholas the Wondermaker receiving episcopal insignia from Jesus Christ and St. Mary, goes to the 13th century when the Church which houses the fresco was commissioned by Arzou-Khatoon, Princess of Khachen, in memory of her perished husband and sons.
The souvenir was manufactured through lithography printing, with gold sheet, on flat MDF. Size: 13*19cm
The whole fresco depicts St. Nicholas the Wondermaker receiving episcopal insignia from Jesus Christ and St. Mary, inside the Chruch of St.Mary, forming a part of the Dadivank Monastery. As Dadivank was under Azerbaijan from the 1920s (the Soviet authorities handed the territory of Artsakh to Azerbaijan), it was forgotten in the Soviet times. The authorities of Azerbaijan made the whole area of the Monastery into a barn and settled a Kurdish shepherd with his family there, who would make fire in the church to make dinner, and as a result, the walls got covered with dirt and smoke, and the fresco disappeared under a thick black layer. It had been like this until 1994, when after the First Artsakh War, the territory of Artsakh got liberated by the Armenians. The fresco was discovered anew and restoration specialists from Italy worked on it and restored. The Monastery was passed to Azerbaijan under the Statement of 6 November 2020. The Russian peace-keepers have been placed in the territory of the Monastery, and the Armenians are not allowed to visit it, even for pilgrimage.
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