Our Lady of Kazan
Icons
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Our Lady of Kazan. Hand-span sized icon. -
Our Lady of Kazan. Hand-span sized icon. -
Our Lady of Kazan. A half-length figure of the Holy Virgin with her head declined to Christ whose right hand is raised in blessing. -
The shoulder-length figure of the Mother of God with the Child. -
A cased icon. In the center is the figure of the Mother of God with the Child. On the borders are images of Sts. Hury and Varsonothy. -
The icon is set in a basma case with a crown and a crescent collar, a sewn icon shield and a sudarium. From below the case can be seen only the faces of the Mother of God and Christ, painted in brown ochre with whitewash highlights and cinnabar contours of the lips. The underlining of omophorion and hair of the Infant are painted in gold. A silver basma plate case decorated with enwinding twines and a crown with turquoise inserts were obviously made simultaneously with the icon. A silver crescent collar with festoon bottom edge decorated with three rosettes was made in 1748. The Holy Virgin sudarium was obviously made by the nuns from the Holy Trinity Convent; their successors in the next century complemented the icon case with the sewn icon shield made of blue taffeta. -
The center of the icon represents a traditional image of Our Lady of Kazan in a frame decorated with herbal ornament. The inscriptions in the centerpiece are made in interwoven ornament with decorations and set in frames of different dimensions. The image is painted against a silver background and set in an ornamental frame. -
The triptych belongs to the folding boxes type with a keel-shaped finial. In accordance with tradition, the upper parts of the leaves represent the Annunciation scene; under them are the festival scenes such as the Nativity of the Mother of God, the Entry into the Temple, the Nativity of Christ, the Meeting of Our Lord, the Epiphany, the Resurrection of Lazar, the Entry into Jerusalem, the Transfiguration (left), the Crucifixion, the Descent from the Cross, the Resurrection – the Descent to Hell, the Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Holy Sepulcher, the Confession of Saint Thomas, the Ascension, the Holy Trinity, the Dormition of the Mother of God (right). The finial of the upper part shows the rare composition of Agnus Dei symbolically depicting the redemptive sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the whole world. It also shows the Infant Christ lying on the discos and blessed with rhipidia that the attending angels are holding in hands. Inside the box is an icon with a built-in 16th century bony medallion icon depicting the Mother of God Hodegetria, set in a filigree frame. Next to it are the angels, surrounded by eight icons of the Mother of God in different iconographic variants. The central icon imitates the engraving of eight images of the Theotokos – one of the leaves created by the Moscow engraver Gregory Tepchegorsky who worked in 1702-1718 and was included in different collections of the first third of the 18th century. Not only did Tepchegorsky use the images of famous Russian icons, but he also authored a number of icons, such as the Tervansky icon, which in Russia was later associated with the Terebinsky pustyn (hermitage) in the Tverskoi region. -
Our Lady looking down at the Divine Child is depicted waist-length. The Divine Child raises His arm in a gesture of blessing. Their heads are crowned. -
Our Lady holding the Divine Child is depicted waist-length. The right arm of the Divine Child is raised in a gesture of blessing. On the raised flat borders of the icon panel are the guardian angel and the saints-St.John "the Goldenmouth", St.Basil the Great and St.Agrippina. -
In the centerpiece Our Lady looking down at the Divine Child is depicted shoulder-length. The Divine Child raises His arm in a gesture of blessing. On the raised flat borders of the icon panel are two saints. -
In the central section of the icon Our Lady bending over the Divine Child is depicted shoulder-length. The Divine Child raises His arm in a gesture of blessing. On the raised flat borders of the icon panel are four saints. -
Resurrection of Jesus Christ with the chosen saints and St.George’s miracle with the Dragon
The icon has three tiers, the upper and the lower are divided into three segments. In the central segment of the upper tier is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Mother of God with the Divine Child is to the left. To the right - St.Nicholas. In the middle tier is the archangel Gabriel with the chosen saints. In the left segment of the lower tier is a scene of St.George slaying the Dragon. In the middle and to the right are the selected saints. -
Our Lady looking down at the Divine Child is depicted waist-length. The Divine Child raises his arm in a gesture of blessing. Her head is crowned. On the raised flat borders of the icon panel are full-length figures of the saints and the guardian angel. -
The icon is divided into three segments. In its upper tier is Resurrection and the Mother of God of Kazan, and in the lower –are the chosen saints. -
Shoulder-length picture of the Mother of God, holding the Divine Child. -
Our Lady with the Divine Child in Her hands is depicted waist-length. The Divine Child raises His arm in a gesture of blessing. The Icon is in the metal frame. -
Frame for the icon Our Lady of Kazan. -
In the central part of the icon are four images of the Mother of God: the Unburnt Bush, the Joy of All Who Sorrow, the Theotokos Kazanskaya and Feodorovskaya. On the margins are the figures of guardian angel, Queen Helen and the righteous John.
