Icons in Japan and Alaska

Vasily Kriukov应该是阿拉斯加的第一个图标画家。在研究的图标应该是由Kriukov在乌纳拉斯卡在阿留申群岛和圣米歇尔大教堂在锡克塔，它已经变得很清楚，Kriukov和图标画家在他之后，在阿拉斯加忠实地复制了原来的俄罗斯图标，这些图标被带到阿拉斯加的俄罗斯传教士。这种态度与山下凛1889年后在日本制作偶像时的态度是一样的。因此，尼古拉·卡萨特金（Nikolai Kasatkin）跟随他的年长传教士Innokenti Veniaminov，也有可能在拜占庭的第二届尼西亚理事会（Nicaean Counsil）于787年建立了同样的中世纪圣像。这种中世纪的观念与强调原创性和艺术家创造的现代艺术观念相反。这是神圣和美丽的代表的想法，是由俄罗斯传教士宣扬到亚洲，包括阿拉斯加和日本。

Vasily Kriukov should have been the first icon painter in Alaska. In the research of the icons supposed to be made by Kriukov in Unalaska in Aleutian Islands and in St. Michel's Cathedral in Sikta, it has become clear that Kriukov and the icon painters after him in Alaska have copied faithfully the original Russian icons which were brought into Alaska by the Russian missionaries. This attitude is the same with the way Rin Yamashita took when she made icons in Japan after 1889. So it is possible that Nikolai Kasatkin who followed his elder missionary Innokenti Veniaminov also took the same medieval idea about icons established in 787 in the second Nicaean Counsil in Byzantium. This medieval notion was contrary to the modern idea of art with the emphasis upon originality and artists' creation. It is the idea of the representation of the sacred and the beautiful and was preached by Russian missionaries to Asia including Alaska and Japan.