Lot number 1032 - Auction 156
SELTENE IKONE MIT DER GOTTESMUTTER 'PRYAZHEVSKAYA' (GORNALSKAYA)

A RARE ICON SHOWING THE PRYAZHEVSKAYA MOTHER OF GOD (GORNALSKAYA) Ukrainian, 19th century Oil on wood panel. Partially restored. 26.2 x 20.6 cm. The history of the icon dates back to the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the settlement of the Slobodzka lands in Ukraine, and is connected with the monastery of St. Mikolaj Bielogorsk Gornalski. This monastery was founded in 1672 near the town of Miropolye. The icon of the Most Holy Mother of God, Pryazhevskaya (Gornalskaya), is venerated in the northern part of Slobodska Ukraine. The discovery of the icon took place in 1792, the iconographer Ivan Bielyn had a dream that an icon of the Mother of God was hiding behind the iconostasis, which remained after the closure of the Transfiguration Church monastery, to be removed from there and restored without touching the face of the Mother of God and the Child Jesus. When he woke up and told the priest his dream, he discovered a hidden icon behind the iconostasis and restored it. Moreover, Ivan Bielyn recovered from a chronic illness after restoring the icon.