Source of “Echo”: Rublev’s “Trinity” “rolls up into a tube.” Tretyakov Gallery employees will check the condition of the icon, which was transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavratranslated

Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in front of Trinity. Sergiev Posad, June 2026 On September 12, "Echo" reported that Andrei Rublev's "Trinity", which has been kept in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra for three years, and not in the museum, was in critical condition due to a broken climate chamber. The next day, the Moscow Patriarchate announced that employees of the Tretyakov Gallery would check the condition of the icon. Journalist Ksenia Luchenko writes that the Ministry of Culture “ran into” the Lavra, which was hiding problems with “Trinity”. We tell you what is happening around the icon.

“What has been talked about since 2023 is happening. “Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity” is dying,” wrote journalist Ksenia Luchenko in her telegram channel “Orthodoxy and Zombies” on September 12, commenting on the publication of “Echo”.

In 2023, the Tretyakov Gallery donated “Trinity,” one of the most famous works of Russian art, to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, for which Rublev wrote it. According to Patriarch Kirill, the decision to return the icon to the monastery was made personally by Vladimir Putin “in response to numerous requests from Orthodox believers.” Museum experts then warned that the “Trinity” was very ancient (early 15th century) and very fragile...