132 images of Our Lady appearing miraculously and wonderworking

Iconography:  Set of Marian icons

Date: XVIII century. Late 18th – first quarter of the 19th century

Origin: From the church commemorating the Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos in town Cherepovets, Novgorodskaya region (now – Vologodskaya region).

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 89 cm, width 70 cm

The icon represents 132 images of Our Lady.

Border scenes (according to: Поселянин Е. (Е.Н.Погожев) Богоматерь: Описание Ее земной жизни и чудотворных икон. СПб., 1914. Репринт: М., 2002; Снесарева С. Земная жизнь Пресвятой Богородицы и описание святых чудотворных Ее икон, чтимых Православной Церковью на основании Священного Писания и церковных преданий. СПб., 1890; Кондаков Н.П. Иконография Богоматери. СПб., Т. I, 1914. Т. II, 1915. Репринт: М., 1998; Чудотворный образ: Иконы Богоматери в Третьяковской галерее: Каталог / Авт.-сост. А.М.Лидов и Г.В.Сидоренко. М., 2001.):

Our Lady:

1. Of Pechory; 2. of Molchensk; 3. Old Russian; 4. of Cyprus; 5. of Vatotepsk; Joy or Consolation; 6. of Tolgsk; 7. the Poemen icon; 8. of Zhirovitsy; 9. “Softening of Evil Hearts” (of Seven Arrows); 10. of Svyatogorsk; 11. of Kazan; 12. of Yugsk (of Smolensk); 13. of Korsun; 14. of Alexandria; 15. of Galatsk; 16. of Tsargrad; 17. of Arabia; 18. “of Seven Lakes”; 19. of the Don; 20. Iberian icon; 21 the Universal; 22. the “Life-Giving Spring”; 23. Terebinskaya; 24. Vnavedskaya; 25. Romanskaya icon; 26. Tsesarskaya; 27. of Antioch; 28. of Bogolyubsk. 29. Bratskaya; 30. Moldavian; 31. Shuyskaya; 32. “Sweet-scented blossom”. 33. Support of the Humble; 34. Ovinovskaya (Dormition); 35. Pisiyskaya; 36. Kurskaya-Korennaya (of the Sign); 37. Domnitskaya; 38. of Petrovsk; 39. Grebnevskaya; 40. of Pskov; 41. The Word Was Made Flesh, Albazinskaya; 42. Your Womb Becomes the Holy Table; 43. Unexpected joy; 44. Fedotyevskaya; 45. Zaonikievskaya; 46. 47. of Abalatsk; 48. Armatiyskaya; 49. Dolinskaya; 50. [Name cannot be read]; 51. Byzantine; 52. Igritskaya (of Smolensk); 53. Putivlskaya; 54. Unfading Bloom; 55. Eleusa; 56. Onevitskaya; 57. Kolomenskaya; 58. Oranskaya (of Vladimir); 59. Abatskaya; 60. Miasinskaya; 61. of Slovenia; 62. of Blachernae; 63. Liddskaya; 64. Nurture; 65. of Kiev; 66. of Svyatogorsk; 67. Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos; 68. Kovenskaya; 69. of Syria; 70. Svyatoilyinskaya; 71. Vilenskaya; 72. Blessed womb; 73. Pochaevskaya; 74. of Tambov; 75. Kolochskaya; 76. of the Sign; 77. Eleusa; 78. [Name cannot be read]; 79. Leaping of the Babe; 80. Kievo-Bratskaya; 81. Meet it is in truth, or Pardoning. 82. Weep at the Cross; 83. Mezhetskaya; 84. of Vladimir; 85. of Tikhvin; 86. of Tobolsk; 87. Siluanskaya; 88. of Mozhaisk; 89. Intercessoress of the Sinful; 90. of the Sign; 91. of Three Hands; 92. of Vienna; 93. of Suffering; 94. Sobolskaya; 95. Chenstokhovskaya; 96. Meletinskaya; 97. of Rzhev or Okovetskaya; 98. Lubecheskaya; 99. Joy of All Who Sorrow; 100. Exaction of the Perished People; 101. Burning Bush; 102. of Spain; 103. of Cyprus; 104. Kipazhskaya; 105. of Slovenia; 106. of Three Hands; 107. Eleusa; 108. Healer of Sorrows; 109. Kovenskaya Golubitskaya; 110. Vyshinskaya (of Kazan); 111. Filaret Vertogr[adskaya]; 112. Star Most Bright; 113. of the Three Joys; 114. Softening of Evil Hearts; 115. Prophecy of Simeon; 116. Dormition; 117. Do not mourn Me, Mother; 118. Onegskaya; 119. Barlovskaya the Blessed Womb; 120. Matelikiyskaya; 121-125. [The inscriptions are lost]; 126. Joy of All Who Sorrow; 127-131. [The inscriptions are lost]; 132. Merciful;

as deposited in 1939.

Restoration: the Vologda branch of the All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Center named after I.E. Grabar, 1992-1994, restorer – Belov S.P.

Inv. №1292/54. © Cherepovets Museum Association.

Bibliography: Куликова О.В. Древние лики Русского Севера. Из музейного собрания икон XIV-XIX веков города Череповца. М., 2009. Кат. № 95 (Илл. 96).

  • General view
  • Dolinskaya icon; Unknown name; Byzantine icon; Slovenia icon; Blachernae icon; Liddskaya icon
  • Pochaevskaya icon; Tambov icon; Kolochskaya icon; Tikhvin icon; Tobolsk icon; Siluanskaya icon