Sovereign Mother of God | Silver and gold foiled icon on thin pressed wood | Large XLG icon 15.7" x 13"

The Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God is an iconographic image of the Mother of God with an amazing history. We will tell you everything about the creation of the icon, where its original is kept and where you can venerate the revered lists of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God.

The veneration of the image, which is depicted on the icon of the Sovereign Mother of God, is associated with the latest period of Russian history. The legend about the icon is well known: Yevdokiya Adrianov, a resident of the Pererva settlement in the Bronnitsky district, saw a white church several times in a dream and heard a demand to find a black icon and make it red. On March 2 (15) March 1917, in the basement of the Ascension Church in the village of Kolomenskoye, a large icon of the Mother of God, blackened from time, was found: the Infant Christ sits on Her knees, in the hands of the Most Pure - royal regalia, a scepter and orb. On the same day, Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich, Emperor of the Russian Empire, signed the abdication of the throne for himself and his son Tsarevich Alexei in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich (later shot by the Bolsheviks).