The Virgin Mary, the Monkmartyr Andrew of Crete and the prophet Hosea, Kiev-Pecherski Monastery, Kiev, 1886 the Virgin Mary stands in the centre upon a cloud, flanked by the Monkmartyr Andrew of Crete and the prophet Hosea with the figures of the Emperor and his family in the background, a plaque at the bottom states that this is to celebrate the Saint's Day of the 31st of October, the icon held in a silver frame, the reverse of the icon mounted with a commemorative plaque in Cyrillic: To His Holiness, the Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich III, to commemorate his and his family's miraculous salvation from the greatest danger that awaited him on the railroad on the 17th October 1888, from the Kiev-Pecherski Monastery, signed Platon Metropolitan of Kiev, also with Gatchina Palace label: No. 453 and with further inventory number: G. 19611. 35 by 26cm, 13 3/4 by 10 1/4 in.
The Virgin Mary, the Monkmartyr Andrew of Crete and the prophet Hosea, Kiev-Pecherski Monastery, Kiev, 1886 the Virgin Mary stands in the centre upon a cloud, flanked by the Monkmartyr Andrew of Crete and the prophet Hosea with the figures of the Emperor and his family in the background, a plaque at the bottom states that this is to celebrate the Saint's Day of the 31st of October, the icon held in a silver frame, the reverse of the icon mounted with a commemorative plaque in Cyrillic: To His Holiness, the Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich III, to commemorate his and his family's miraculous salvation from the greatest danger that awaited him on the railroad on the 17th October 1888, from the Kiev-Pecherski Monastery, signed Platon Metropolitan of Kiev, also with Gatchina Palace label: No. 453 and with further inventory number: G. 19611. 35 by 26cm, 13 3/4 by 10 1/4 in.
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