The Mother of God, "Of the Sign"

The Mother of God, "Of the Sign"This mounted icon of the Mother of God "Of the Sign" depicts the Theotokos in the Oranta posture, with the Christ Emmanuel appearing before her as a vision of the Incarnation. This icon type, which saved Novgorod from the Suzdalian army in 1169, is venerated on November 27 and remains a powerful image of the Theotokos's intercessory authority. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

with a village church visible in the distance — is one of the most iconic images in Russian art

Michael of Chernigov — the 13th-century prince who was martyred at the court of the Golden Horde for refusing to bow before idols

George and the Dragon — the great patron saint of soldiers

and Balthasar

Ivan Shishkin's magnificent 1878 painting "Rye" presents the Russian countryside in its full summer splendor — a vast field of golden rye under an expansive sky

Matthew's Gospel

John the Baptist is from the Moscow school in the tradition of St

settling on the banks of the Volkhov River

The beloved Tikhvin icon — which appeared miraculously near Tikhvin in 1383 and was preserved in America from 1944 to 2004 — returned to Russia in a great act of thanksgiving and is now kept at the Tikhvin Monastery where it was venerated for centuries

John Maximovitch the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco renders the great Archbishop of the Russian diaspora with the canonical dignity his memory deserves

Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanova

found at the root of a tree in the forests of Kursk in 1295