Icon of the Holy Great Martyr Anna Kashinsky, turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Depicts a full-length figure of a saint, blessing with a cross, against the background of a conditional landscape of Tver, the princely chambers and Kashin. The ascetic of the Russian land. The wife of the legendary Prince of Tver Mikhail (1318), who died in the Horde for his faith. Lost in the Horde of her sons. The last year of her life she was a monk in Kashin. The light of the Old Believers, whose canonical veneration, after two centuries of oblivion, was restored in 1908. Icon dimensions: 26.5x22 cm.
Material:
Wood, gesso, gilding, tempera
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