Christ’s passage to the Calvary

The icon depicts a scene from the Passion cycle showing Jesus Christ being led to the Golgotha, surrounded by the Mother of God and the myrrh-bearers. They are preceded by the soldiers escorting the condemned thieves carrying their own crosses. The icons show Symon of Cyrene helping Jesus Christ to carry the cross, he’s walking before Christ with the thieves.

Bearing of the Cross

A Roman soldier is hurrying Christ bent under the burden of the heavy Cross. Simon of Cyrene is helping Christ to carry the Cross. At the left are the holy women, at the right are Roman soldiers and high priests. A building in the background still has predominantly Gothic and Orient features, which is the distinctive feature of Palekh icon-painting of the early 19^th century.