Dom Bogoroditsy Tikhvinskii monastyr' (Home of the Mother of God. Tikhvin Monastery)
St. Petersburg: Avrora, 2015. Sewn cl. This album recounts how icons of the Mother of God from early Christianity (attributed to Luke the evangelist) through the Byzantine period and on into medieval Rus' garnered special veneration. The first such icon came to Tikhvin via Byzantium in the early sixteenth century, and the authors focus on the church in northwestern Russia commissioned by Vasilii III in the early sixteenth century to both honor and house the icon. They look at the putative miracles associated with the Tikhvin icon in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Another theme is the copying of the icon and its use as a talisman in times of danger. Two chapters discuss the construction of Dormition Church by a Italian architect and Novgorod builders, its fresco scheme, and its becoming part of a monastery ensemble. Another topic is the loss of the icon and its recovery n the early 2000s, A final chapter covers the reopening and restoration of the church and monastery after the Soviet period. 252 p., 30 cm, approx. 300 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #4962
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