In memory of our dear friend and colleague A. S. Agumaa The article is devoted to the problem of interpreting a scene in which one character pulls another's beard or two characters pull each other's beards. The geography of the scenes under consideration is quite wide (Western Europe, the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Albania), the chronological framework is from the VI to the XII centuries. As a result of the research, it was possible to identify some images ("The Dream of Joseph", an illustration to one of the episodes of the apocryphal "Acts of John") and determine the range of their possible meanings. Keywords: Romanesque art, Caucasus, Abkhazia, Albania, Western Europe, architectural plastic, stone reliefs, frescoes, beard, crypt, church, iconography, medieval art. DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF ONE SUBJECT IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ART (PULLING THE BEARD) Andrey Yu. VINOGRADOV, Ekaterina Yu. ENDOLTSEVA The article deals with the problem of interpretation of the scenes where one person pulls the beard of another one or two persons pull the beard each other. These scenes were relatively widespread throughout Western Europe, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and Albania between the sixth and twelfth centuries. The authors identified some scenes as "Joseph's dream", an illustration to an apocryphal episode of "Acts of John". Keywords: Romanesque art, Caucasus, Abkhazia, Albania, Western Europe, architectural decoration, stone reliefs, frescoes, beard, crypt, church, iconography, medieval art. The study was funded by the Russian State Science Foundation grant No. 15-24-1201 a/m. Andrey VINOGRADOV-Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the Higher School of Economics; auvinogradov@hse.ru. Ekaterina Yuryevna ENDOLTSEVA-PhD in Art History, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ekaterina.endoltseva@gmail.com. Andrey Yu. VINOGRADOV - PhD (in History), Assistant Associate Professor, Higher School of Eco ... Read more