Lot number 2307 - Auction 151
SELTENE IKONE MIT DER HEILIGEN ANNA VON KASIN

A RARE ICON SHOWING ST. ANNA OF KASHIN Russian, Moscow, after 1909 Tempera on wood panel. The monastic saint standing on the bank of a lake in front of the monastery of Kashin. She is wearing the Great Schema. The background ornately incised and the border painted in faux enameling. Minor losses. 35.2 x 30.5 cm. The Holy Right-believing Princess Anna of Kashin, a daughter of Rostov Prince Demetrius Borisovich, became the wife of the holy Great Prince Michael Yaroslavich of Tver in 1294. After the death of her husband by Mongol Tartars, Anna withdrew into Tver's Sophia monastery and accepted tonsure with the name Euphrosyne. She later transferred to the Kashin Dormition Monastery, and became a schema-nun with the name Anna. She fell asleep in the Lord on October 2, 1338. Commemorated on October 2.