In Moscow on 82-m to year of life has died the doctor of arts, Professor, historical faculty, Moscow state University, honored Professor of the Moscow University, head of the sector of Byzantine art at the State Institute of art studies Olga Popova. According to the announcement on the website of the history Department of Moscow state University, this happened on January 16.
According to the Dean of the faculty of history and the Department of General history of arts, Olga Popova sigizmundovna was not only an outstanding specialist in Byzantine art, a renowned scholar and the head of the Russian scientific schools, but above all a wonderful person. Teaching was the main business of her life, and lectures at Moscow University that she read more than 50 years, has opened for generations of students to the beauty of the Christian way and became a memorable experience of personal spiritual experience.
Olga Popova was the author of more than a hundred scientific papers and ten books, and her work was widely known not only in Russia but also abroad.
the Funeral service for Olga Popova will be held on Sunday, January 19, at 13:00 in the temple of Sophia the wisdom of God in Secondary Gardener (Sofiyskaya Naberezhnaya, 32). Then at 16:00 in Khimki cemetery will be her funeral.
