Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God | Gold and silver foiled icon on wood | Size: 8 3/4"x7 1/4"

Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God. Original

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).