RUSSIAN
Icon of Virgin Mary
2016RCIN 408461
Presented on the first meeting in Britain between The Queen and a Patriarch of Moscow, the Icon of the Virgin of Tikhvin, of which this is a copy, has been revered in Russia since the fourteenth century. In it, the Virgin gestures towards Christ as ‘the Way’.
Presented to HM The Queen by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, 2016
Presented to HM The Queen by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, 2016