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Any and all icons being exported from Russia must be accompanied by a certificate from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, attesting to the age of the icon. While Russian law regarding the exportation of icons is quite clear, examples of Russian icons over 100 years of age are regularly introduced into the open market by way of ...
142 cm × 114 cm (56 in × 45 in) Location. Old Katholikon of the Trinity Lavra, Sergiyev Posad. The Trinity (Russian: Троица, romanized: Troitsa, also called The Hospitality of Abraham) is an icon created by Russian painter Andrei Rublev in the early 15th century. [1] It is his most famous work [2] and the most famous of all Russian ...
Holy Trinity Icon. The Holy Trinity is an important subject of icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and has a rather different treatment from depictions in the Western Churches. There are two different types of Holy Trinity icons: the Old Testament Trinity and the New Testament Trinity (Троица Ветхозаветная and ...
The Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God (Russian: Феодоровская икона Божией Матери), also known as Our Lady of Saint Theodore and the Black Virgin Mary of Russia, is the patron icon of the Romanov family. It is one of the most venerated icons in the Upper Volga region. Her feast days are March 14 (27) and August 29.
Annunciation of Ustyug (Russian: Устюжское Благовещение) is a Russian Annunciation icon, created in Novgorod in the 12th century, and one of the few icons which survived the Mongol invasion of Rus'. The Annunciation of Ustyug is currently held in the Tretyakov Gallery. [1] The origins of the icon and the exact date of its ...
Dimensions. 59 cm × 57.2 cm (23 in × 22.5 in) Location. Cathedral of St. Sophia, Veliky Novgorod. Znа́meniye (Russian: Зна́мение) or Our Lady of the Sign is an icon in the orans style, dated at the first half of the 12th century. The icon was painted in medieval Novgorod. It is one of the most revered icons of the Russian Orthodox ...
The Angel with Golden Hair. The Angel with Golden Hair (Russian: Ангел Златые Власы, romanized: Angel Zlatye Vlasy), [1] also known as the Archangel Gabriel (Russian: Архангел Гавриил), [2] is a tempera icon by an unknown Russian artist, painted in the second half of the 12th century. It is displayed in the ...
This is the complete list of the oldest extant Russian icons created in Kievan Rus' and the Rus' principalities before and during the reign of Alexander Nevsky (1220–63). 1000–1130 [ edit ] Image