Museum name state museum of the history of religion identification number kp-30141 material wood, tempera place of creation russia size 45 x 34 cm the attribution of the icon is probabilistic, its name has not survived. It is close in iconography and style to the icon from the collection of the state museum of the history of religion "st. Metropolitan feognost". It is made as a repetition of an ancient icon with multiple inserts of soil and traces of a basma frame. From written sources it is known about the existence of an icon of st. Macarius on his tomb in the assumption cathedral, his individual images are known in miniatures, frescoes and icons before the official canonization. Date: Late XIX – early XX centuries, Russia.
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