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Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera Oklad: sewing, beads, bugles 31 x 28 cm Condition: in a good condition This icon represents a significant collection value as an example of high artistic performance, originating from the Old Believer icon-painting workshops of the Urals.

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 44 х 37,6 сm Condition: no restoration, chipped edges, loss of gilding. Subtle elaboration of garments and personal attributes gives the icon a high artistic value. It is of considerable collector’s interest as a solemn Orthodox festive image.

Wood, gold leaf, gold paint, tempera 31,2 х 26,4 сm The composition is attractive in its pictorial diversity. The subtle elaboration of the garments and personalities grants the icon a high artistic value. The exquisite miniature painting, the elongated proportions of the figures, the bright colour palette, the masterly execution of the assistants and the ornaments on the clothes give the image a special festive decorative quality.

Rural area of Vladimir region, late 19th century Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 36 х 31,5 сm Condition: good preservation, no restoration. Such a composition - the arrangement of the feasts in the stamps on the sides of the central image - is known in Russia since the second half of the 16th century. And it was already widespread in the 17th century. The main idea and central composition of the icon is devoted to the triumphant victory of Christ over death. The Twelve Great Feasts are the twelve most important feasts in Orthodoxy. Dedicated to the events of the earthly life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. Of considerable collector’s interest as an image executed in the «solemn» style with miniature painting in numerous stamps.

Wood, gesso, tempera Oklad: silver, chased, engraved, gilding Maker’s mark “A. B.”; Assay master’s mark «A.S.» over the date 1869; coat of arms of the city of Moscow and silver mark “84” 31 x 27 cm Condition: generally in a good condition, minor deformations of the Oklad The presented icon is an early example of the Eleusa iconographic type of the Mother of God (in which the infant Jesus Christ is nestled against her cheek), known also as the Virgin of Tenderness. The icon Vladimirskaya Mother of God is the most celebrated in Russia and considered as the national palladium. Several miracles of historical importance such as deliverance from the invasions of enemies, are attributed to this icon. This icon appears in many legends and historical stories and it is the most copied icon among Russian icons of the Mother of God. The magnificent silver-guilt oklad, decorated with various ornamental motifs, gives particular value to the icon.

Wood, gesso, silver leaf, tempera 78 x 47.5 cm Condition: fragmentary tinting This iconography became widespread in the 18th century. The subject is one of the most important Christian Holy Days – the Pentecost, the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. The Mother of God is seated on the throne, surrounded by the apostles. Tongues of reddish-violet flame are descending from a dove - a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The style of the icon, distinguished by its special expressiveness, is a synthesis of the Baroque art of the outgoing era and the traditional icon-painting art characteristic of the first half of the 19th century. The icon “Descent of the Holy Spirit”, in a vertically elongated oval, was made for the festive row of the iconostasis

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera Condition: no restoration, covered with a layer of darkened varnish, crack at the joint of the boards on the upper field. The iconography of the Mother of God is known from the end of the 17th century from a drawing from an icon in the Sijsky iconographic original. Distinctive features of this rather rare iconography are the text of the Virgin’s Kondak, by whose first words the icon is called, placed on the ornamental border of Mary’s maforion.

Wood, gesso, tempera 54 x 43 cm Condition: the gold ground of the centerpiece and the gilding on the halos have been lost, after restoration

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 36 x 31 cm Condition : generally in a good condition, vertical crack The icon is notable for its archaic artistic language, expression and laconic manner of painting, for its rich colours, subtle and careful modeling of a «facial» painting The Kazanskaya Mother of God is the most venerated variant of the Hodegetria (Directress) icon style in Russia. The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan was brought to Russia from Constantinople in the 13th century and then, the icon disappeared for more than a century. The icon was miraculously recovered in Kazan in 1579. Russian military commanders Dmitry Pozharsky (17th century) and Mikhail Kutuzov (19th century) attributed to the miraculous icon the help in saving the country from the Polish invasion of 1612, the Swedish invasion of 1709, and Napoleon’s invasion of 1812. The Kazanskaya Mother of God became the Holy Protectress of Russia. The icon was often chosen as a palladium of military regiments; many churches, altars and chapels were built in honour of the revelation of the Virgin of Kazan and in memory of the military events of the Russian history.

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 35 x 29.5 cm Condition: after restoration The icon is notable for its archaic artistic language, expression and laconic manner of painting, for its rich colours, subtle and careful modeling of a «facial» painting. The iconography of the composition «Only-Begotten Son» dates back to the middle of the 16th century. These icons, called «theological-didactic» in literature, reflect the rationalist quest for faith characteristic of educated strata of Russian society in the 16th century, and illustrate attempts to interpret in painting the most important dogmas of the Orthodox Church.

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 36.5 x 28.5 cm Condition : generally in a good condition, fragmentary tinting on the gold of the Nimbus, tinting of the paint layer in the fields, on the back side there are some small circular holes produced by xylophagous insects.

Wood, gesso, gold leaf, tempera 26 x 22.5 cm Condition: in good condition, minor losses of the paint layer, candle burn on the lower margin, chips along the edges of the icon. The icon is distinguished by the subtlety of writing, elegance, decorativeness, and an abundance of gold. The best examples of the Ural icon painting, to which the present icon certainly belongs, have absorbed their best features from the Old Russian icons: from the Moscow one - elongated proportions of figures, rhythm, ornamentation, writing on gold; from Yaroslavl - a three-dimensional, rounded image of faces and the dynamism of the subject.

17.5 x 13.5 cm The saint is depicted against the background of the Valdai Iversky Monastery, where his relics were kept.