Icon of the second half of the 17th century of the Monks Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky.

The image of the second half of the 17th century of the Monks Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky. The blissful light of the Russian north, where, under the medallion of the Sign, the life-size figures of saints carry a model of the monastery. Their figures rise above the sparse vegetation and landscape of the Arctic, given through the convention of iconic hills and undersized bushes on the rocks of the islands. The peculiarities of the characters of the saints, their sacred hypostasis, is emphasized by various colors of clothes, shimmering against a pacifying green background. Their not bright, but gradually exciting glow, like a metaphor for the unhurried feat of asceticism and the constitutive affirmation of faith at the ends of the earth. The Solovetsky monastery is a place of concentration and fortress of the Russian spirit. The school of true faith, the commandment of the Monks Zosima and Savvaty, venerated for centuries.