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Find of an icon safe on a fireplace: Icon establishment in again built up church The prince Vasily Kvashnja prays before an icon for protection of Kostroma city against Tatars: Carrying out of an icon in the field of fight Icon fragment: The victory over the enemy has occurred thanks to wonderful protection of an icon of Theotokos of St. Theodore
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russian icons have been repatriated via direct purchase by Russian museums, private Russian collectors, or as was the case of Pope John Paul II giving an 18th-century copy of the famous Our Lady of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church, returned to Russia in good faith.
This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 ...
The Bogolubskaya Icon of the Theotokos, 12th century (Vladimir-Suzdal Museum). The Theotokos of Bogolyubovo or Bogolubovo Icon ( Russian : Боголюбская икона Божией Матери ) is a Theotokos Agiosoritissa , a type of Marian icon, which is venerated and perceived as wonderworking by the Russian Orthodox Church .
It is popularly attributed to the most celebrated icon-painter of Kievan Rus, St. Alypius from the Kiev Pechersk Monastery and is possibly modeled on a mosaic from the central conch of the Assumption Cathedral in the Pechersk Monastery. The Mother of God Enthroned belongs to the Panachranta type. Shortly before Napoleon's invasion in 1812, it ...
Between 1949 and 2004, the icon remained at Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois. In August 1978, the Theotokos of Tikhvin was brought by Archbishop John, who had become the Orthodox Church in America's Archbishop of Chicago and Minneapolis for veneration to St Mary's Russian Orthodox Church in Holdingford, Minnesota. [2]
The painting of hell icons, known as adopis [1] or "hellography" (as opposed to iconography), was also a type of black magic in medieval Russia. Hell icons were first mentioned in the Life of St. Basil (the 16th century): Basil threw a rock at the icon of Virgin Mary before the eyes of the astonished crowd of pilgrims. Then he allegedly showed ...
Clothed as an Orthodox monk, often shown holding an icon The Trinity by Rublev Andrei Rublev ( Russian : Андрей Рублёв , romanized : Andrey Rublyov , [ 1 ] IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej rʊˈblʲɵf] ⓘ ; c. 1360 – c. 1430 ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] was a Russian artist considered to be one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian ...