Icon "st. Theodore the varangian", author: chirikov joseph (osip) semenovich the saint is depicted full-length, wearing a tunic and cloak, with a cross in his right hand. The soil is in the form of stylized hills. Behind him is a miniature landscape, on the right are forests and a river, on the left is a city with churches and a high bell tower, similar in outline to the great bell tower of the kiev-pechersk lavra. On the upper field in a round stamp is the image of the savior emmanuel. The icon is one of the menaion icons that were laid out on the lectern on the saint's day. The cycle was made for the church of the entry of the virgin mary into the temple in the marble palace in st. Petersburg as a grand ducal order to two large workshops in moscow, headed by the famous mstera icon painters i. S. State museum of the history of religion identification number kp-33103. Date: End of the 19th century, Russia, Moscow.
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